Hoeing
I sometimes fear the younger generation will be deprived
of the pleasures of hoeing;
there is no knowing
how many souls have been formed by this simple exercise.
The dry earth like a great scab breaks, revealing
moist-dark loam-
the pea-root’s home,
a fertile wound perpetually healing.
How neatly the green weeds go under!
The blade chops the earth new.
Ignorant the wise boy who
has never performed this simple, stupid, and useful wonder.
-John Updike
4 comments:
love it! SKO
"Wow. Jake's a poet now. I didn't know he was so sensitive." (what I was going to say)
Nice post! (what I said)
SNS (formerly SNO)
not a poet. a dork that put someone elses poetry on his blog. isn't blogging so yesterday now anyway?
jdo
yeah, i couldn't have written that, for me it would have been more like...
Getting your hands dirty is...good
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