Harvesting

by jim holt

You crystal unicorn you,
so difficult to find,
so easy to break,
I’m a smasher, I’m a farmer
my crops are frostbitten,
my cows are thin,
I have a sign on my barn
for strangers hopeful

——-

I wrote this Dec. 15, 1989, in Toronto.

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