{"id":3968,"date":"2012-08-16T11:48:17","date_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:48:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/?page_id=3968"},"modified":"2012-08-16T11:48:17","modified_gmt":"2012-08-16T15:48:17","slug":"memory-of-kuhre","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/memory-of-kuhre\/","title":{"rendered":"Memory of Kuhre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014killed by a tractor, August 1969<\/p>\n<p>hot days the farm<br \/>\ndoes not move<br \/>\nfar off<br \/>\na cowbell far off<br \/>\nhis tractor sound<br \/>\ncaught in trees<br \/>\nand free again<\/p>\n<p>I am there unsurprised<br \/>\nby my skinny arms<br \/>\nraking in a field<br \/>\nI think maybe it will rain<\/p>\n<p>but the clouds<br \/>\nmove slowly they<br \/>\nare in another country<br \/>\nat dusk the cows move back<br \/>\ninto the field like clouds<br \/>\nthey dream themselves<br \/>\nwalking shaking flies<br \/>\nfrom their sleep<\/p>\n<p>mornings the woman<br \/>\nwho talks to the hens<br \/>\nthrowing seeds<\/p>\n<p>and it is me listening<br \/>\ndeep into the tractor\u2019s<br \/>\nponderous heart<br \/>\nfor a spark<br \/>\npulling the flywheel<\/p>\n<p>I think<br \/>\n(it starts<br \/>\nup in such a rage)<br \/>\nhow can the old man<br \/>\nhanging crutches<br \/>\non the gearshift<br \/>\nclimbing slowly<br \/>\nup its side<br \/>\nnot be shaken down<\/p>\n<p>but each day<br \/>\nKuhre just lurches off<br \/>\ninto the tractor\u2019s noise<\/p>\n<p>and oh it is such<br \/>\na great slow place<br \/>\nthe cows moving back<br \/>\nthe clouds far as continents<br \/>\nhis tractor circling<br \/>\nall my afternoons<br \/>\nand I am perhaps thinking<br \/>\nhis eye is gone<\/p>\n<p>at supper the woman crazy<br \/>\nwith questions<br \/>\nI am thinking it<\/p>\n<p>still Kuhre sits<br \/>\nsilent and one-eyed<br \/>\nas his old barn<br \/>\nand he never answers<br \/>\nhe never<\/p>\n<p>riding out past cows<br \/>\ndreaming him riding<br \/>\nor it could be Kuhre\u2019s<br \/>\nstrange shut face<br \/>\ngoing by me<br \/>\nwhile I rake<\/p>\n<p>until I think part<br \/>\nof him knows something<br \/>\nit is night or down<br \/>\nin a dim green silo<br \/>\ncorn raining all around<br \/>\nI rise slowly upward<br \/>\ntoward the light<\/p>\n<p>and the morning rises<br \/>\nit will be a hot day<br \/>\nfar off<br \/>\nthe tractor sound<br \/>\ncontinues and the clouds<br \/>\njust continue<\/p>\n<p>and it is me<br \/>\nwatching the woman among<br \/>\nthe white shrieking<br \/>\nof the hens throwing seeds<br \/>\ntalking to them all<\/p>\n<p><em>-Wesley McNair<\/em><\/p>\n<!--themify_builder_content-->\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-3968\" data-postid=\"3968\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-3968 themify_builder tf_clear\">\n    <\/div>\n<!--\/themify_builder_content-->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2014killed by a tractor, August 1969 hot days the farm does not move far off a cowbell far off his tractor sound caught in trees and free again I am there unsurprised by my skinny arms raking in a field I think maybe it will rain but the clouds move slowly they are in another [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2341,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2341"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3968"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3969,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3968\/revisions\/3969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/csc-mcnair\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}