Text of Poem | This body burning here is not the fire I’d choose, And I must keep in step with things the way they are, I found her stiff and cold in a corner of the shed Now all is resigned to fire and the purifying air And the seed that grew the hay, the absence of another Time will take them all, I watch the ashes blow |
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First Line | This body burning here is not the fire I'd choose, |
Original Pub Location | |
Original Publication Date | 1951 |
Original Citation | Man and His Field. Denver: Allan Swallow. 1951. 63. |
Complete Poems | 69 |
Hearst Collections | |
Word Count | 125 |
Manuscript | Permission to reproduce work from the James Hearst Papers has been granted by the Special Collections Department of the University of Iowa Libraries. |
Poetic Form | closed |
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