An American Sentence

Anytime now, though we’ve lost all confidence you’re paying attention.
Anytime now, though we’ve lost all confidence you’re paying attention.
There’s sap in these hills,
the sugar maples
just beginning to run.
The farmers have them hooked
up with plastic tubing
so it looks like the trees
are giving blood or worse,
stuck on life support.
They get so cranky
these farmers for
the two or so weeks
while the run lasts –
twenty hour days
boiling it all down.
I’m not sure what they’d get
if they boiled me down,
but I know it would not be
anything near as good
as maple syrup.