Tilling the Earth
I remember
Dad tilling the earth
in the hot sun.
He turned bright red.
Never tanned.
Irish ancestry.
He used to have red hair.
It turned dark brown.
Then white, mostly missing.
Red hair showed up
in one of my sisters,
and some in me.
Just enough streaks
that people asked me
if I used hair dye.
Funny thing to think of
when thinking about Dad
tilling the earth.
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