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,
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Categories:
grant wood, america, art, metaphor, poems,
Form: Ekphrasis
Grant Wood: American Gothic
...stoic or mourning
in a time of depression
or keepers of secrets
with a hostile divide?
why daylit drawn curtains
made from fabric she's wearing
and 'mother-in-law's tongue'
on the porch to t...
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Categories:
grant wood, america, farm, symbolism,
Form: Ekphrasis
Clerihew Wood
...Iowa raised Grant Wood
painted unusual landscapes* when he could
Enigmatic& everso quirky
answers we never can see
*https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/american-gothic/5QEPm0jCc183Aw...
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Categories:
grant wood, art, people,
Form: Clerihew
American Gothic - With Apologies To Grant Wood
...I’d plow four rocky acres, maybe even five,
For a taste of the honey from my Honey’s hive.
No one spices the clover like my lover does
When we meet in the meadow and we buzz, buzz, buzz.
She’s ...
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Categories:
grant wood, farm, love, marriage,
Form: Lyric
American Gothic { Picture Poems}
...After noticing a small white house
this painter decided that it would look
fancy if someone would live in it too
so using his sister Nan and his dentist
Dr. Byron Mckeeby this colonial print
i...
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Categories:
grant wood, adventure, anniversary, dedication, education,
Form: Ekphrasis