The mill my father ground upon in
the frosty morning fall
Today tumbled from the trailer to
rock to a rest
Golden's No. 2 new model.
Will the cane ever press through the rollers
How shall we hoist the cast iron
body back upon the stand
Attach the counter pole to turn the gears
Fire up the kerosene rabbit burner
Pour the 60 gallons of juice into the
iron lipped Columbus kettle
Skim down the cooking to the specific gravity
of sixteen
Place the dregs in the galvanized pale
Skim some more with the moon hubcap dipper
Pull the fire and quickly dip the amber
syrup from the vat
Careful not to scald
Seeing the edges of the dipper form
hard candy drops
High neck bottled and ready for the breakfast bisquits
Fresh from the old gas stove oven
On a cold November morning
mourning the loss of the
father who ground upon the Golden mill.
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