Prairie Poetry   
  During Harvest
   
 

My father laughed louder, smiled
quicker. Even when the wheat
measured only thirty bushels per acre,
he'd tell a joke, wink. Riding home
from the field, he'd calculate bushels
to truck loads to bills he could pay.
Once home, sleep came like a thunderstorm,
unavoidable and full of rain.

 
   
  Dana Salvador
   
  Copyright © 2006 Dana Salvador
   
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