Leftovers
Dent corn, Palmer's
The corn harvest is pretty much done and the silage-cutting machinery has reduced once-green bottomland fields into stubble and kernels that flocks of Canada Geese are feasting on. Here and there, however, the machines have missed a few almost-full ears of the low sugar, high starch variety that is grown around here for dairy cow feed. You can tell that it's mature when it develops characteristic indentations. "And when the corn goes into dent/Across the fields like old men appear," writes folksinger Charlie Maguire. "And we pick it and store it all away/Around the place, I'll know that fall is here. Autumn, of course, arrived this very morning.
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