The Witness of Combines

When Kent Meyers was sixteen, his father died of a stroke. There was corn to plant, cattle to feed, and a farm to maintain. Here, in a fresh and vibrant voice, Meyers recounts the wake of his father's death and reflects on families, farms, and rural life in the Midwest.

Preface

IX

The Witness of Combines

I

(8)

Windbreak

9

(16)

Straightening the Hammermill

25

(14)

Chickens

39

(6)

My Mother's Silence

45

(12)

The Conversation of the Rose

57

(4)

My Grandmother's Bones

61

(8)

Old Waters

69

(14)

Rafting

83

(4)

Rocks, Roots, and Weeds

87

(10)

How Joel and I Almost Becaume Mountain Men

97

(8)

Night Grove

105

(4)

Dragline

109

(8)

The Eye, Taken to Eternity

117

(8)

Working

125

(16)

Slow Flies

141

(6)

Frozen Silage

147

(6)

Stuck

153

(6)

A Constellation of Cockleburs

159

(16)

Black Snow

175

(16)

Birds Againsty the Glass

191

(12)

The Night Trucks

203

(4)

Selling the Parts

207

(12)

Going Back

219

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The Witness of Combines

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