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SASKATCHEWAN CORN-FIELDS
The prairie reaches for the summer As bland horizons simmer Noonday heat; wide Never-ending, wood- Forsaken fields filter The light, stretch and falter Flatly to the distant haze To spill from sight then ooze Away in mist; and corn, The grain that feeds the keen Edge of a nation's belly, Grows with ease, belies The sweated furrows in the soil, Where man stakes out his soul In seed each spring and reaps In full his faith each fall.
JOHN WADDINGTON-FEATHER

SASKATCHEWAN CORN-FIELDS

The prairie reaches for the summer
As bland horizons simmer
Noonday heat; wide
Never-ending, wood-
Forsaken fields filter
The light, stretch and falter
Flatly to the distant haze
To spill from sight then ooze
Away in mist; and corn,
The grain that feeds the keen
Edge of a nation's belly,
Grows with ease, belies
The sweated furrows in the soil,
Where man stakes out his soul
In seed each spring and reaps
In full his faith each fall.

JOHN WADDINGTON-FEATHER

from
Headland #3

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