Shelling southern field peas
What a porch meditation
Each tight leathery jacket
Only a fingernail can separate
This is a spiritual ritual for me
Necessary, nourishing, tending
I call in my bold grandmothers
Singing, tasting the atmosphere
Opening a line to the ancestors
Crowders-purple hulls-cowpeas- African peas
Opening a line to the ancestors
Singing, tasting the atmosphere
I call in my bold grandmothers
Necessary, nourishing, tending
This is a spiritual ritual for me
Only a fingernail can separate
Each tight leathery jacket
What a porch meditation
Shelling southern field peas
box turtle road 
Paying attention to the earth and what she offers us while paying attention to community and our connections around the kitchen table
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