“Winter Harvest” by Nettie Farris

Bigger Than They Appear

A field remembers:

every spade,
potato, fungus,
and famine
sows its own
little mound
of sorrow;

the grazing of the cows
and the plowman,

leaving.

Nettie Farris,
Bigger Than They Appear:
Anthology of Very Short Poems
Accents Publishing

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