Poems ✍️

Tall timber stood here once, hee on a corn belt farm along the Monon.
Here the roots of a half-mile of trees dug their runners deep in the loam for a
grip and a hold against wind storms.
Then the axemen came and the chips flew to the zing of steel and handle--the
lank railsplitters cut the big ones first, the beeches and the oaks, then the brush.
Dynamite, wagons, and horses took the stumps--the plows sunk their teeth in--
now it is first class corn land--omproved property--and the hogs grunt over the
fodder crops.
It would come hard now for this half mile of improved farm land along the Monon
corn belt, on a piece of Grand Prarie, to remember once it had a great singing
family of trees.