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Spring Barnyard

Text of Poem

Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud
like a cloud of fancies
but the pigs and ducks immerse themselves
in a puddle of facts
and eye my rubber boots suspiciously
as fellow travelers.
First Line
Pigeons circle the wet glossy mud
Original Pub Location
The Sun at Noon
Original Publication Date
1943
Original Citation
The Sun at Noon. Muscatine, Iowa: The Prairie Press, 1943. 37.
Complete Poems
56
Hearst Collections
The Sun at Noon 37.
Word Count
32
Poetic Form
open
Themes
animals
materiality
Twitter Quote
the pigs and ducks immerse themselves / in a puddle of facts