welcomes spring <br /> opening his book of fields <br /> furrowing the pages <br /> <br />rows of stories <br /> revisited <br /> repeated traces of family history <br /> <br />new entries <br /> sown <br /> branching free <br /> <br />budding ears <br /> picking the tunes <br /> of spirited winds <br /> <br />under sailing caravans <br /> caught up in the swirling arms <br /> of chapters in an autumn way <br /> <br />rolling up the scrolls <br /> of leaves of grass <br /> spirited away from winter chills <br /> <br />settling in lofty bins <br /> cribbed indexes <br /> of a next generation <br /> <br /> - May 24,2008 <br /> <br />Published online by Sentinel Literary Quarterly, Vol.2 No.2, January 2009<br /><br />Ben Gieske<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-farmer-6/
