many would have occupied their minds instead
with designs of an escape plan,
far from this paranoid farmer
with delusions of stray voltage.

but carefully as a freshman
physics major in a Feynman lecture
he listened to tales of
dyslexic babies and

cows

dead or milk drained by this voltage
without a source or ground.
digital photos capture Radio Shack detectors
driven into soil in circled coordinates.

home inspector scratches his moustache
then a poem,

as he prepares another report
for the local believers.


� 2004 by Jenifer VanBuren