Yes, another a late blog - 'tis the season. Within the last week I read that farm bankruptcies are on the rise in the upper midwest once again. When I drive the long stretches of open farmland across southern Minnesota I have lots of opportunity to speculate about many things. Forlorn looking farmsteads being one of them.
Late/Harvest
Molten clouds filter a metallic sun
above cornstalks stripped by a combine
bumping up against Thanksgiving.
A sprint to bring in crops rain delayed.
The farmhouse sighs beside a grove
of hardwoods, bony fingers pointing.
Overdue notices
weight the kitchen counter.
Outside a tree-swing ebbs
and flows on prairie winds in this rush
to reap payments. Snow threatens.
Marilyn Aschoff Mellor
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