Path Through the Wheat
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1The hillside’s tidal waves of yellow-green
Break downward into full-grown stalks of wheat
In which a peasant, shouldering his hoe
Passes along a snaking narrow path --
2A teeming place through which his hard thighs press
And where his head just barely stays above
The swaying grain, drunken in abundance,
Farm buildings almost floating on the swells
3Beyond which sea gulls gliding white in air
Fly down on out of sight to salty fields,
Taking the channel fish off Normandy,
A surfeit fit for Eden in its dawn.
4Yet as the peasant moves through such high grass
Made edible in bread he will in time
Stumble upon a skull from Arcadie,
Abel’s cranium anchoring the grain.
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David Middleton, « Path Through the Wheat », Revue LISA/LISA e-journal [En ligne], Le coin des écrivains, mis en ligne le 01 janvier 2005, consulté le 18 avril 2024. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/579 ; DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/lisa.579
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