THE ROYALTY OF HAPPY HENS

EGGS AND ANCESTRY

            for Lars and Anne

August arrives, and fires.

Karen works Norwegian ancestry

looking forward to Anne's

discoveries in the motherland.

Thor, 84, her source,

outside Halden City in Sponvika,

a small village, traces roots

nine generations to 1535,

Mikkel Eskildsen, born in Denmark

aka Michel Jude, a bailiff

who corresponded with King

in Copenhagen. A Union then,

with Danish King calling the shots.

What did Anne find?

Lars and Anne's on Saturday.

Vib's art and Temari Balls.

MotherVision.

Happy hens, rich yokes, healers--

Lars and Anne--

ways the small farm

calms a troubled country.

            jim

            26--31 July 2019

P.S. No need to look for royalty

in my past. Serfs and conscripts.

Our names all began with numbers.

Writer and therapist, Lars Clausen, works with memory re-consolidation as well as farming. A former Lutheran pastor, Lars has written many books from cycling around the nation on his on3-wheeler as an ally for LGBTQ friends, to his latest work, The River of Life: Spiritual Enlightenment and Memory Reconsolidation. His wife Anne is an artist and partner in the Happy Hens Chicken Farm. She created the quilt at the beginning of this movie.