The letter of the law is: no lines in from
the outside world. But this phone in a garage
down the road is fine, and a trip across
the field on foot enough to make you think twice
before a call. Above the receiver—chiropractor,
vet, weather report, all numbers penciled
on the wall. Below—a doodle of a stallion
with the caption STUD. Bareback and buckboard,
they gallop in at night for help with a fire
in Chester Yoder’s barn, the hay put up too wet,
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