Economics
(Inside
our father wishes
we were born calves
Do my nerves misfire Or
do the leaves in the corn field
cling and cut at once
Yield can mean money
or tenderness, but
often money
How many
bushels of soybeans
How many,
many pounds of meat
Singular, among summer
wheat: a stalk of corn
called a volunteer in spite
of the farmer
The only yield is the yielding
I plan to do
Poem in the Shape of a Saddle
CANESE JARBOE's work appears in journals such as DIAGRAM, Colorado Review, Bennington Review, and Indiana Review. They are the author of dark acre (Willow Springs, 2018). From rural Ozarkia, they are currently located in Milwaukee where they are a PhD student in creative writing and AOP Fellow at University of Wisconsin.