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Tag Archives: agriculture
blue chemical haze – May 6
5.6.2014 blue chemical haze floats across the fields where disk harrows cut rows to start the new planting long into the night they work because ground and food will not wait for a factory clock when the rains … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, civilization, computerization, Earth, farming, folly, illusion, learning, nature, rootedness, rooting
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deep frozen fields – February 17
2.17 dry cracked deep frozen fields wait for snow that may never come to save them at least not in time I wait in my hotel room to watch my son sing a song of sixpence while the crows … Continue reading
harvest home – October 28
10.28 full moon cool night, frost dusting across long languid farm field hills, stubble filled now, while mother earth begins her fallow rest. along the way steam rises from the yet warm soil, first winter’s chill shifting into gear, … Continue reading
pulling out summer’s weeds – September 27
9.27 pulling out summer’s weeds, crop, mixed veggies, to free the soil for a winter breath. the soils roil and roll, sift and smother, indentations marking where the spade dives under to separate, chop, cleave, roots that cling. … Continue reading
rows and rows – July 25
7.25 rows and rows of verdant crops unfolding in the midwest sun rows and rows of waiting room chairs hoping that wellness will come we lay our crop lines early and late, in the lives we live the … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, consequences, doctors, fears, Garden of Eden, gardens, grace, Health, journey, life, Mayo Clinic, souls
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Indiana gold – July 3
7.3 the tassels brown, mauve, golden top the corn flow, rising off into distances. Male corn sperm ready to give themselves to the silk. we’ve built a country upon you friends, food, fuel, silage for the feeders of the … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, corn, farmers, farms, Indiana, maize, Pretty Boy Floyd
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