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their wake. Their nebulous travels
seems to center around in the area
of the milk jug and powdered cho
colate mix, the coffee pot, the
fruit, cookies, and granola bars.
Soon after, they turn noisy,
marked by banging, clanging,
pounding and roaring sounds
echoing from various directions
around the farm. On occasion,
then even clank and rattle chains,
the heavy sort used to tow stalled
or stuck equipment.
Hammering from the direction
of the farm shop telltales phantom
fix-it sessions. And a steady clat
ter of drag chain and heifers
crowding around the feed bunk
says a phantom is running silage.
But just try and find one of ’em.
The phantoms whisk by on trac
tors, bundled in hooded sweat
shirts and coveralls if the day is
cool and windy. Though their
faces are a blur at best, familiarity
with clothing patterns usually
offers fairly-dependable identity
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clues.
Sometime I pick up the office
phone and hear a phantom voice
on the bam extension hooked up
to a vet, equipment parts dealer or
feed firm. Or the sound of foot
falls overhead or a slamming
basement door hints that a phan
tom has again crossed the
threshold.
Yet, even with my fastest ghosts with ravenous appetites.
SO-yard-dash time, or leaping two The returned trash, however, is
steps at a time, the elusive pre- very real, including thick and dur
sence will have vanished in the able coatings of field dust on the
time it takes to gallop that direc- white lids of the drink jugs,
tion and holler, “Hey, are you Phantoms occasionally surprise
there?” you with mysterious "leavings”
They aren’t. a bunch of your favorite wild dais-
Sometimes they leave behind ies from a fencerow, an armful of
solid evidence of their passage, lilacs from a long-abandoned
Dirty boots. Dirty dishes. Dirty farmstead, or a couple of Johnny
clothes. Greasy bearings or tom Jump-Up plants rescued ahead of
sections of hydraulic hose. Hunks the plow,
of dairy bam manure or size 12 Like classic phantoms, they are
muddy footprints. (Three size-12 most likely to show up long after
pairs of feet can leave a LOT of dark, reeking in a aura of oil and
phantom tracks.) grease and manure and alfalfa
And phantom notes. Like innoculant and dropping bits of
Need two plowshares.” “Order hay and straw as they float on
minerals.” “Bossy in heat.” clouds of chisel-dust residue pow
“ Planting at Grandma’s,” or dering your clean kitchen floor.
“Won’t be back for lunch.” They’ll edge closer and closer
t Th' s l as l usually found after as you shrink back from their
Ive just finished putting lunch frightful (read filthy) appearance,
together. One thing for certain, they whisper in a raspy, dust-dry-
Though elusive and barely throat voice:
glimpsed, phantoms do consume
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staggering quantities of food.
albeit at strange hours and some
times strange places far from the
kitchen table.
Through this most intense sea
son of the phantom phenomenon,
packed lunches and thermal-jugs
of lemonade disappear from the
kitchen, seemingly into thin air, to
be consumed by these unseen
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