Wheat Field

 

driving the wheatland highway

through rolling fields

I pass bales

stacked like pyramids.

they lie on lay lines,

harvest-drawn,

dune yellow on the land.

chaff and stalk hide in chambers

the splendours of a pharaoh.

and as we open the tomb

gold spills even

from the heart

of the stubble husk,

into our bowls and bodies.

 

Jan 2003

 

Poems by Dorian Haarhoff