In Miro’s Farmhouse

Objects are set out
In a Richard Scarry taxonomy

Ladder & bucket
Cart, watering can

Outdoor implements
So much depends on

How you weigh maize & soil,
fields & machine

Parts & whole
whole & parts

S.D. Dillon has an AB from Princeton and an MFA from Notre Dame, where he was Managing Editor of The Bend in 2004. His writing has appeared in the Detroit Free Press, FIELD, The South Carolina Review, the Hawai’i Pacific Review, The RavensPerch, and Lighthouse Weekly, and is forthcoming in Walloon Writers Review, Tar River Poetry, and Tipton Poetry Journal.