Text of Poem | The old farmer nurses rheumatic joints Memory plows the years He stares as if the days ran backward |
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First Line | The old farmer nurses rheumatic joints |
Original Pub Location | |
Original Publication Date | 1978 |
Original Citation | Event: Journal of Contemporary Art 7 (1978) 61. |
Republication | |
Complete Poems | 378 |
Hearst Collections | |
Word Count | 132 |
Poetic Form | open |
Observations | Details experience of retired farmer in a wheelchair. |
Themes | |
Twitter Quote | He stares as if the days ran backward / through a mirror, in the corner / a spider waits in her web. |