<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353534" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sackcloth</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting<br>arm and neck holes into a burlap bag.<br>A croker sack they called it. Sackdragger<br>they called the man who dragged a croker sack<br>between the cotton rows to pick. He dragged<br>a gunnysack behind him in the ditch<br>collecting empties. Him they chose<br>the Likeliest to Sack Seed in the feed store,<br>or to suck seed. He was your daddy. He sacked<br>groceries part-time, and they jeered:<br>you sorry sack of shit. Sackcloth,<br>which Job sewed upon his skin, was goat hair.<br>God who clothed the heavens with such blackness<br>said, I make sackcloth their covering.<br>Isaiah understood. God had him speak a word<br>in season to the weary. Speak, Isaiah, now, to me.<br>Before the stars like green figs in a windstorm<br>drop, the sun is black as sackcloth, and the moon<br>becomes as blood. My soul is weary. Speak,<br>Isaiah. Sing. I was a scholar as a boy:<br>I cut the neck and arm holes into the burlap,<br>pulled it on, and cinched it with a hank of rope:<br>what I have done from then till now is itch.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Brooks+Haxton">Brooks Haxton</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=353534" data-title="Sackcloth de Brooks Haxton" data-description="I made sackcloth my garment once, by cutting arm and neck holes into a burlap bag. A croker sack they called it. Sackdragger they called the man who dragged a croker sack between the cotton rows to pick. He dragged a gunnysack behind him in the di..."></div> </div> </div>

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