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
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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