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POSTCARDS

 

...Most lovely your postcard:

Boats in a harbor of Portugal.

How lovely another card:

An old castle in Scotland.

And then that one with the hairy cows:

A lovely picture form the Isle of Skye.

And that blue one?

And that other one?

Basque Country!

A robust Breton on the backs of them.

No, they've not forgotten me.

...And yet, my Lord!

For want of hands my Harvest is being lost

With bad weather

With a wild wind.

...Those young people, vigorous

Possessing strong arms

All nimble-footed

How long would it have taken them

To harvest my little crop

My sacred bread-stuff? Scarcely

one short day...

 

August 1965.