Daddy cuts a watermelon,
Mama shakes salt.
In the Matheson Cove,
a Fourth of July picnic;
beneath the maple tree.
Ma and Grandaddy waiting,
Uncle Ralph roasting hotdogs;
Daddy cuts a watermelon.
The cousins spit seeds,
Harold swimming in Hyatt-Mill Creek;
Mama shakes salt.
The wagon trail
curving over mountain trails.
Fireworks erupt!
--Brenda Kay Ledford
This poem was published in "West End Poets Newsletter," June/July/August 2016
