from The Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of Animal Husbandry; Clare Leighton, 1935
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series, we offer selections from visual and printed texts that offer
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The Tree That Bursts Through The Silo
Tree In Silo; Ken Wolf
Many thanks to María Arambula for sharing on our Arts and Culture Feed A.G. Sulzberger’s latest rural dispatch for The New York Times, “Amid Rural Decay, Trees Take Root in Silos.” The image of these trees bursting from dis…
Rural Poetry Series: C.D. Wright
I’m country but sophisticated. I’m particular and concrete, but I’m
probing another plane. . . . There are many times when I want to hammer
the head. Other times I want to sleep on the hammer.
– C. D. Wright
C.D. Wri…
To The New Year 2012
From the Foster-Fluharty Farm; Matthew Fluharty
from Sabbaths, 2005
VI.
I tremble with gratitude
for my children and grandchildren
who take pleasure in one another.
At our dinners together, the dead
enter and pass among us
in living love and in …