The Company of Horses by Peter Fallon

Author:Peter Fallon [Peter Fallon]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781852355821
Publisher: The Gallery Press
Published: 2013-01-15T00:00:00+00:00

Who owns, he wonders,

as he passes,

these holdings, sites

and old demesnes?

And hears the verdict

of the wind —

trees and brambles,

weeds and grasses.

Pennies and Pounds

He was spreading seed

on a tear in the field,

reprising an ancient refrain

at the thought of the yield:

One for the pigeon,

one for the crow,

one to rot

and one to grow.

His father’s fathers

broadcast acres of grain

that was stitched to the ground

by the needles of rain.

Good hays and harvests —

but their true beatitudes were trees,

hope of the ages,

the crop of histories,

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