Arsenic Lobster
poetry journal |
Issue Fifteen Winter 2007 |
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Harvest Laura Hirneisen Picture by picture, faces emerge, crops of sinners come to town, women veiled, men oiled, pressed, angled like scythes and bucksaws, strong enough for change. The month, you suppose, October, when cornfields rattle with wind, old pipe organs bereft of song, always a farmer’s tractor ready, fat kernels to be hulled. One woman perhaps you know, her nose yours, cheeks sagged, puckered visage real as recalled snippets of who she once was. She, like the others, waits, time flattened in lungs, her dress a burgundy curtain, eyes tuned to reaped and sown, mouth ready, almost an amen. |
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