I never saw

A thing more strong

To draw, to draw.”

The grammar wuzn’t quite what I would have liked it to be in this last verse of poetry, but I made it in a time of pain, and I knew that when croup and colic wuz round, she nor I wuzn’t a-goin’ to stand on a verb more or less.

And then I had another one:

“Some spignut roots

Steeped on the fire

Is always good

For my Josiah.

And a little Balm