Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THE BALER, by HAYDEN CARRUTH


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First Line: You tourist composed upon that fence
Last Line: And half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake
Subject(s): Farm Life; Hay & Haymaking; Agriculture; Farmers


You tourist composed upon that fence
to watch the quaint farmer at his quaint task
come closer, bring your camera here
or fasten your telescopic lens
if you're too indolent; all I ask
is that when you go home you take
a close-up among your color slides
of vacationland, to show we pay the price
for hay, this actual panic: no politic fear
but tumbling wild waves down the windrows, tides
of crickets, grasshoppers, meadow mice,
and half-feathered sparrows, whipped by a bleeding snake.


Used with the permission of Copper Canyon Press, P.O. Box 271, Port Townsend, WA
98368-0271, www.cc.press.org




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