Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, THERE'S A SALT WIND ROAMING, by GWENDOLYN WESCOTT



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THERE'S A SALT WIND ROAMING, by                    
First Line: There's a salt wind roaming the prairie grass
Last Line: Who live in me again.
Subject(s): Sea; Wind; Ocean


There's a salt wind roaming the prairie grass,
Blowing the fields of corn,
A fishy wind from a water front --
God knows where the thing was born,
Or how it comes to a meadow land
A thousand miles from the sea --
But the salt wind bends the prairie grass
And tugs at the heart of me.

From somewhere back there in the yesteryears
When waves welled over the plain,
The ghost of a wind
Calls to men of ships
Who live in me again.





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