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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)

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