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Shear Pin

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Change, Government, Machinery, Politics, Sacrifice, Safeguards / March 8, 2025 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Between the insensate power of the engine
and the vulnerable bits of the machine
there's a pin in a sleeve of a power-take-off
A little mechanical fuse if you will
that will give its life for the greater good

You will find it on the farm
Cutting blades of a binder or a swather
hindered in their back and forthness
or an auger trying to lift grit not grain

Hear the snap of the pin shearing off
saving parts from flying off in all directions
Remove the pain replace the pin and off again

Sometimes it takes a hero to save a country too

Bull Low

Audio Recordings, Farm, Ranch Life / tagged Machinery, Power, Trucks, Work / December 20, 2024 / by neil_2015_wordpress@neilmeili.com

Only in trucks the lowest gear
had a name that was not a steer

Anything you
wanted to haul up the steepest hill
Anything you wanted
to pull out of wherever it was stuck

Deep throated power in that sound
the mightiest beast for miles around

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Ken on MossbankMarch 23, 2025
Beautiful, that could go on a t-shirt
Nancy Fierstien on TroubledMarch 18, 2025
Keep writing, Neil. Keep writing and writing and writing…because you have so much tucked inside that is worth saying to…
Ken Christopher on Negative Space in New York CityMarch 17, 2025
Prairie boy in NYC
Anonymous on Cowboys Will Be BoysMarch 6, 2025
I love this poem make more like it
Nancy Fierstien on Redwoods in the RainFebruary 27, 2025
Love, love, love, love, love this one Neil!

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