“Picking Olives” and “Water as transitive”

Picking Olives

Picking olives feels like
Popping bubblewrap
Satisfying thwap!
Fingers press
Slight give

Serotonin rush

Or maybe it’s the other way around

Maybe
Just maybe
My need to run
Itching and burning
At my legs
Is just my great²²²
Grandparents
Running all day
Against the wind
Against the elk and deer
Against the wilting of the grains

The chewing on pencils
Is my DNA longing
For my perfect 

White
Teeth to take purchase
Gnashing
Chomping
Fibrous stalks
And seed-filled fruits
To nothingness
For hours all day long

Digging my fingers into sand
My brain floods with
Feel Good
And I should be on a riverbed
Digging in the sand with my siblings
Laughing as we look for crayfish
Or raw clay
Fat roots
Daily bread
Amen

Water as transitive

Water as transitive
	(as trans)
water as law
	(mutable)
water as refuge
	(dangerous)
water as life
	(refugee)
water as death
	(refugees)