John Ashbery - At North Farm
Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents,
through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?
Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters.
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents,
through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?
Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters.
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?
Any mythy businassss shamnyone?
great poemmm
Hmmm... wheredya get that?
ReplyDeletei meant to say its by John Ashbury and its called "At North Farm"
ReplyDeleteDo you know about North Farm? Apparently, North Farm is a region near hell where heros go to search for wives in the Finnish epic poems of "The Kalevala.
kinda funny how they have to go near hell
And this poem is supposed to be 14 lines long not 15 so it could be a sonnet about the myth of these men and women. "Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?"
but i mean it has that element of death as well, "Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you" that's happening to all of us at once regardless of any other variable that is in existence.
what did it make you think about?
But if you were asking literally where i got the poem, it was in a book :)
a big book
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