Harvest

A few rats are gnawing

along the floor of the silo,

but what are a few rats

against this tower of food?

It takes 75,000 crocus blossoms

to make a pound of saffron.

And after today out there

in the heat, nobody dreams of food.

In our dream, Mary Slater

swings higher and higher

on the vine over the Haskins'

creek, and disappears.