Clipping loaded stems from the bunch, tasting
succulent globes, skins stretched on juiced
flesh, I live only in the moment. Whose hands
placed
the cuttings into the moist earth, tended and
watered
virgin plants, shepherded creeping tendrils into
fruition?
Opening the new jar of olives, I ponder the
trees
in a sandy land far removed from the verdant green
of my Louisiana landscape. The interconnection
between hands that open and hands that plant,
hands that harvest and hands that bottle
provides the link, the connection, establishes
the patterns that reveal our selfhood, our
identity
on a plane, plumbed, sheered, consummate,
completely beyond our own finite consciousness,
enigmatic as the patterns of DNA to an ancient
seer.
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