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Winter Harvest

A field remembers:

every spade,
potato, fungus,
and famine
sows its own
little mound
of sorrow;

the grazing of the cows
and the plowman,

leaving.

 

Journal of Kentucky Studies, 2009

 

Bridget Cleary

 
A field remembers.
Every spade, potatos, fungus,

and famine
marks a unique impression.

The grazing of cows
and the plowman, leaving.

A cottage floor
houses stories of its own:

the flickering faces
of unreachable people,

fever, the heat
of the kerosene.

The world will end,
urgent as an emergency:

geese flying over the roof,
agitation,

and trees,
wild and weeping.

 

2001

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