Carhartt blood.
Workworn and torn in yards of scrap and lumber,
thick as giants limbs, by nimble overalls,
snapping buttons and rusting rivets;
coating taut flesh like indigo ironhide—
oil, fat and paint abated, satiate, stubbornly dry.
double-denim or triple; faded, parched, starched,
ironed crisp: carhartt blood, dickies flesh,
big ben bones—
fearing never, rain, pain or troubles,
invisible and warm, and defiant in deepest of blues.