DOWN ON THE FARM

 

OVINES & BOVINES

BAAING & MOOING,

DOWN ON THE FARM.

 

SCATTERED ACROSS

THE VERDANT GREEN

OVINES & BOVINES

TUGGING & CHEWING,

BLEATING & BELLERING.

 

BULL THISTLES –

FROSTED PURPLE CREWCUTS

ON BULBOUS FACES

ABOVE TALL SPIKY

MULTI-LIMBED TORSOS –

SKIRT POLE AND BARBWIRE FENCES

THAT CRISS CROSS

DOWN ON THE FARM

LIKE AN IMMENSE

PATCHWORK QUILT.

 

LITTLE PAMSIE IVIES

CAPARISONED WOOLY

BLOUSES OF DAYLILY PAISLEYS

ABOVE EMERALD COURDEROY SKIRTS,

ENCIRCLE THE OCTOGANAL

CANDY CANE FARMHOUSE.

IVY FESTOONERY WRIGGLES

IN THE CRISP

LOAM-LADEN BREEZE

RUSTLING LIKE DRY GOURDS.

 

OINKY BOINKY SQUEALERS

DIRTY PINK PUNKERS

SLAM DANCING WILDLY

GRUNT, SLURP, SLAM

GRUNT, SLURP, SLAM

CRUSHED OATS MIXED

WITH AROMATIC ORANGE RINDS,

LONG FEATHERY GREEN CARROT-TOPS,

RANK, WEEK-OLD BEEF VEGGIE SOUP,

& SCUMMY SOUR MILK

GRUNT, SLURP, SLAM

GRUNT, SLURP, SLAM.

 

OINKY BOINKY SQUEALERS

DIRTY PINK PUNKERS

STILETTO HOOVES

PUMPING MADLY

ON SPINDLY LEATHERY LEGS.

ORGANIC CHISEL PLOWS

THAT CHURN THE FETID

SWAMPY SLIME IN FRONT

OF THE LONG GALVANIZED HOG TROUGH

GRUNT, STOMP, SLAM

GRUNT, STOMP, SLAM.

 

 

SLOWLY I RUN MY HANDS

OVER THE ROUGH,

YEARS UNPAINTED

WEATHERED GATE.

 

PAUSING I SQUARE MY SHOULDERS,

THEN BREATHE DEEPLY,

INHALING THE HEADY AROMA

OF HAY, SILAGE & MANURE,

RELIVING A FLOOD OF MEMORIES

AS THE OLFACTORIAL FOG

AGGRESSIVELY SWELLS & EXPANDS,

DISPENSED BY THE WINDS

TO OTHER NOSES

LESS APPRECIATIVE THAN MINE.

 

ONE LAST LINGERING MOMENT

BEFORE DEPARTING

MY BOYHOOD HOME

I ATTEND THE CAMPESTRAL OPERA

OF MY FATHER’S FIELDS –

OVINES & BOVINES

BAAING & MOOING,

CRUNCHING & MUNCHING,

DOWN ON THE FARM.

 

VOCABULARY LIST:

 

OVINES: SHEEP OR SHEEP LIKE, PLURAL

BOVINES: CATTLE OR CATTLE LIKE, PLURAL

VERDANT: ABUNDANT VEGETATION

BULBOUS: BULB LIKE

CAPARISONED: DRESSED IN

OCTOGANOL: 8 SIDED

FESTOONERY: DECORATIVE VINES

STILETTO: TYPE OF KNIFE

FETID: HAVING AN OFFENSIVE SMELL

OLFACTORIAL: HAVING TO DO WITH SCENT

CAMPESTRAL: FIELDS OR COUNTRYSIDES

 

 

 

WAYNE O’CONNER

NOVEMBER 2010