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