farm – Page 4 – Leaf And Twig

Written

time and weather
write the story
of survival on the structure

The red farm
is a valentine
to the landscape

the hard frost delayed
more time to make hay

The tractor rests
beside next years berry crop
hoping for a bumper.

Cows find
spring’s sweetness
in tender young grass.

Rust may diminish their substance
but their labor has shaped
the land on which they rest.

They feed in the field of their ancestors
and rest in a humble structure
that is everything it needs to be –
home

The cheerful scarecrow
encourages reluctant corn.

At the farm of procreation
the girls gather at the fence
their sweet eyes disarming undeserved judgements.