How to Make

…I learned it

from him, that farmer,

knew his work

as tools, in implements; told me

what to trim a furrow with

if you want it

sharp & straight across

the field, because

if the crop don’t change

& the land don’t or

the sun don’t,

you get to know your tools.

This (he said, as he bent

to tear him some root) is

the Earth itself, this piece of it;

he proffers it, I take it, & he turns

to smile himself a most

excellent smile & said Now

this (he said) is

how we make…