Hi Lisa! Great poem! Living on a working farm sure brings it joyous noise. I loved the prompt too. This was in my ears all afternoon —
Turn Over
If they crank that engine
one more time it’ll crack.
I expect tractors, songbirds,
perhaps even the squeal of foxes.
Back behind the barn
my neighbor and his son
wrangle with their stubborn
early seventies F-100.
Obviously this horse has been
flogged beyond repair.
I love how you brought so many farm sounds to life here! It’s not quite as quiet as some might expect, is it? Thank you so much for sharing this!
Love it! As one who had a dad who was cleanly working on cars, trucks, etc those are familiar sounds indeed!
As an early seventies model myself, I felt for the F-100 (and also for you, hearing its near-death rattle over and over).
They got it running yesterday and it only made it to “almost” the top of the eighth of a mile driveway. Not sure about its future.
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Hi Lisa! Great poem! Living on a working farm sure brings it joyous noise. I loved the prompt too. This was in my ears all afternoon —
Turn Over
If they crank that engine
one more time it’ll crack.
I expect tractors, songbirds,
perhaps even the squeal of foxes.
Back behind the barn
my neighbor and his son
wrangle with their stubborn
early seventies F-100.
Obviously this horse has been
flogged beyond repair.
I love how you brought so many farm sounds to life here! It’s not quite as quiet as some might expect, is it? Thank you so much for sharing this!
Love it! As one who had a dad who was cleanly working on cars, trucks, etc those are familiar sounds indeed!
As an early seventies model myself, I felt for the F-100 (and also for you, hearing its near-death rattle over and over).
They got it running yesterday and it only made it to “almost” the top of the eighth of a mile driveway. Not sure about its future.