No one is occupying the farm, so the farm is abandoned. This is the main sense of abandonment, but Kooser hints at another sense of abandonment. The feeling that the farm had been abandoned long before the occupants left. The man abandoned his job as a farmer. Kooser does this through statements like “yard choked with weeds” and “leaky barn.” These images imply that the farmer abandoned his farm by not taking care of what he needed. This abandonment may have occurred because the farm failed or the farm failed because the man abandoned the farm work. Which leads to the final theme,