Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PLOUGHING, by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH Poet's Biography First Line: I push back / through tattered / dictions, / the roughest usage | ||||||||
I push back through tattered dictions, the roughest usage of tongues, to the serf's sniffle of verbs in the cold shed: hard consonants, soft vowels he hardly comprehends for their leniency: villein's parlance: ploughshare, rasp, reaphook, shovel's bite, castration device: the rottenest eggs of words: lexicons of such heavy lives I could blaspheme under this mountain: lacking latin's ivy, the lilied gloss of french: sacerdote, troubadour: absurd in my surds: yet pushing deep in this black earth: rolling grubs of poems out to the lank light: wizened, illiberal, buttoned into the graveclothes of seasonal joy: but nonetheless refunding the stooping killdeer's withering cry. http://www.wlu.edu/~shenano | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLOOD SEED by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH FIRST READER by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH GRANGER'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH IN MEMORIAM by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH LESSONS by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH MUSIC by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH STORY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH TENANTRY by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE CICADA by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH THE PRIVATE PAPERS OF J.L. MCDOWELL, M.D. (MOUNTAIN DOCTOR), 1970 by GEORGE ADDISON SCARBROUGH |
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