Hello Friends!
This is the view of our valley with our farmstead in the distance. Do you like the writings of Wendell Berry? I was so excited to meet him last week! He was in town to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Leopold Center for Sustainable Agriculture. (Please check out their good work at www.leopold.iastate.edu.) So I drank in his poetry last week to commemorate the occasion. He signed a book for me: "To Wende Elliott with pleasure --Wendell Berry"!
We are quite wet here in Iowa. Here is my poem of the week:
Prairie Schooner
Six inches of rain
furious at the house
for being unbending and larger than the grasses
so unrelentingly pelts us
Gravel roads impassably soft
we laugh at the white capped waves that chop
the farm fields forming unlikely coastlines.
As frightened as the children of the howling
wind and house that fairly pitches and rises
our schooner on the prairie
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Please publish more of your poetry.
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