Loaves
(the last harvest)

Dust and poems
Philosophy and the buzz of grasshoppers
Grease
14mm on the sickle guards
Hawks diving on snakes
Blast furnace winds
Dreading and craving rain
And double pumping to facilitate finding third gear

Old Red and I
A 1972 Dodge C600
Pulled those hills for years
Three hundred bushels a load
I loved her eight cylinders and glass packs
She was a throat-y *****
No AC…No radio
Just combustion, torque and a five speed transmission
Zen and the art of hauling grain

@Twenty eight million five hundred and sixty loaves….