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Edward Habib McKuen. ©2006 by Stanyan Audio Video Archives
A Thought for Today
God grant us kind contrition for our sins and our omissions
and most of all our contradictions.
FROM the¨BOOKS
PASTORAL
Finally the wind has finished
piling up November leaves.
Now it turns
to drive the snow in drifts
along
the
fences
of December farms.
The cattle come slow
or not at all.
They scratch their backs
against the barnyard doors.
Their dialogue,
even as they chew their endless cud,
is low and mournful.
The lazy longhorns,
down the pasture
venture outside only
for a cooling taste of snow.
The wise among them
stay inside the shed
switching tails at what few flies
now survive the early winter.
Lie back.
The wind is on the move.
Till the bare tree limbs
stand still again
we’ve no need to move at all.
Turn not away from me.
But if you turn toward me,
do it in a lazy way
and slow.
Let me sleep a minute more.
When the coffee starts to perking,
come to me with smiles.
- from "Fields of Wonder", 1971
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