Poem: The Farmer’s Wife

Published 3:52 am Thursday, January 29, 2015

The Farmer’s Wife

by Norm Olson

We left the plow there in the field

Where Dad died that April day.

We sold the horses and the cows

And gave the pig away.

We begged our Mother to go with us,

But she begged us there to stay.

And we found her holding the dinner bell

And buried her in May.