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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PALOUSE, by KAREN SWENSON Poet's Biography First Line: Chaff hovers like pollen Last Line: Spattered with stars. Subject(s): Farm Life; Agriculture; Farmers | |||
Chaff hovers like pollen over a combine. Land rolls ripe with wheat and fallow plows dark ribbons into the hills. Female, fecund, they belly and hollow under sky clabbered by cloud. Before wheat, bunchgrass, camas pooled the prairie blue and horses ran speckled rumps into the cool gulch's cleavage. Still, bluffed against the sun you see a swaybacked souvenir kept for a child's Sunday ride. Driving home from a milltown's roundup through these barrows of hills the rodeo announcer echoes, "This cowboy learned to rope at a California school." The night is a mare's rump spattered with stars. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...KICKING THE LEAVES by DONALD HALL THE FARMER'S BOY: WINTER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: SPRING by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: SUMMER by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD THE FARMER'S BOY: AUTUMN by ROBERT BLOOMFIELD |
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