
Countless Green
by Becky Seward This is a poem I wrote in 2006 for my undergraduate thesis at St. Mary’s College of Maryland, but I still find it relevant to the farm life I live today. It was written about my last day on a farm I worked on for nearly five years. Countless Green
It was my first and last day
on the plow
in the secluded North Field
our dream space Behind me
behind the buzzing machine
lay many pearly crests
Her underbelly On my last farm day
I sat baking in the
warm sanctuary
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