(Where a music festival had made us restless).
When he entered in the fall,
Men were harvesting corn
where the new house stood.
Later they bulldozed off the rich corn-feeding layer,
Advertisement
And the dense spoor-fine dust
Swirled across the school, powdering every child.
And still in May the flattened space
(too dead to be a field) behind the new houses
Looked ruined--as by a retreating army.
What must have been bulldozer tracks
Looked more like
The crossing, circling prints left
One rank and sweating Plistoscine
Evening as male and female, mailed and plated
Want to keep up with breaking news?
Subscribe to our email newsletter.
Read more in News
Penn Fires Stiegman; No Successor Named
