Hi Gary,
Just a couple of comments below. This was such fun to read. The flip-flop
of stanza info from S3 to S5 and then the weird obsession thrown in. It
reminds me of one that you wrote and I'll never forget the
image...something about some dude having collanders in the trees in his
back yard. LOL These are the wonderful things, the great images that stick
with us Gar. Well done.
CW, Mary :O)
--- garydawg <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> C and C please
>
> Hay for the Horses
>
> I was only there once,
> at thirteen
>
> over to Willie's Uncle Shem's
> place on Churchtown Road
> off the main highway [nice intro]
>
> From the corner,
> you could sense the farm -
> the solid house, peg constructed [omit 'the']
> from straight grain Douglas fir,
> barn enough to milk 40 head,
> cedar from footlogs to shake top,
> henhouse for 100, maybe 200 layers,
> white-washed horse paddocks,
> rabbit runs,
> model hog pens
> and the fields cleared to carpet green
> from ridge to river. [wow!]
>
> or you would
> if you didn't see
>
> gray board fences rotted,
> pig pen dried mud,
> land overgrown with blackberries
> and scrub alder from run to hilltop,
> barn packed with boxes and barrels of beer bottles -
> Oly, Rainer, Lucky Lager,
> chicken coop chock full of soda empties -
> Nehi, Mission Orange, Hires,
> house yard, chicken yard, barn yard,
> garden plot covered with junk and treasures,
> mountains of odd glass containers
> broken by time and weather,
> Uncle Shem's shattered fortune. [wow again!]
>
> In '44, Uncle Shem returned from France,
> broken by winter's war,
> to a farm considered the best along the river.
> By '46, his glass obsession
> washed across barn and yard,
> no room for cows, chickens or turnips.
> By my visit in '57, the tide had carried away sons, wife -
> the last vestiges of sanity
> crystallized in dusty milk bottles,
> dirty peanut butter jars,
> and waves of empties, [outrageous!!]
>
> no hay for the horses.
=====
Good Cheer & Be Well,
Maryann Hazen-Stearns
"Under The Limbo Stick"
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