What does it mean to be a farmer anymore?
Who owns that title?
Is it the…
Landlord-farmer, floating above
the loamy-green
Detached from the earth
The farmer who does not plant or
work in the soil
Absent from the field
Tractors driven by satellite, the
spring plantings
Artificial stars
Who is the farmer? The landlord or
the field-hand
The sewer, reaper
Crawling down the rows, fingers pressed
into the dirt
Seeds and prayers and hope
Is she the farmer; is he? The unnamed
hireling
Toiling in the sun
Sweat dripping from the brow, laborers
watering
Nameless boys and girls
People without a claim, or recourse
to the law
Dreamers without land
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