WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD

WINTER IN AN IOWA CORNFIELD Why start nattering about lucky tracks Neath a tarnished night of a waning storm? Haystacks in a disciplined platoon wait With hooded coats, caves of hibernation, Standing in formation with watchfulness. Six columns and six rows of perfection Thirty-six baled soldiers in transition Marching forward in a biting snow storm, Blindly floundering in a final surge. A good resistance fighter is lonely.* Haystacks in the Snow, Grant Wood (1941) * Winter in Wartime, Jan Terlouw (1972)