In 1947 Leo returned from The War
Purchased a table saw and joiner
Welded a steel stand to support them

He married made the first television
In Denver built his house board by board
That table saw grinding blade after blade

Chewed and chewed upon pine oak cedar ply
Repaired televisions for forty years
Colorblind though he was

Built his daughter’s walnut wedding dais
Solid as rock beautiful as daisies
By then the table saw forty years old

When I received the machine
It was over sixty has gone another fifteen
Leo watching me half those years

Tables cabinets ukuleles chessboards
And on the side of the steel stand
A storage bin holds literally

Every weary blade that saw spit out
For the life of me I cannot
Bear to part with even one of them