Walled In

Lorna Hamel
3 min readAug 14, 2021

And it feels weirdly right……

tall corn behind a farm fence
My back fence and a wall of corn — current summer

This is a very weird year.

We’re walled in by a field of corn. Usually our neighbour, the cattle farmer, rotates his many cows around in his various fields, which for some reason are scattered around the neighbourhood. Some of his fields are joined together. Sometimes when he moves his cattle around, he has to set up a cattle drive and block off everyone’s driveways until the cattle have…

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Lorna Hamel

Lorna is a web designer and graphic artist from northern Canada, who writes now and then. Her website is https://www.northcountrylife.net