Vale Rod May (farmer, activist, father, lover)

tall 

arching

man

hardened

by 

kind

farming

kind eyes

hands

of kindred 

soil

winded

by old land 

winds

and now —

by flippant car

~

pioneer 

against waste 

for life

now wasted

industrialism’s 

guilty comfort

interrupts 

another 

in late May

~

vale Rod May

kind

wind

eyes

man of the rows

of our nourishment