Dying Friend
Daniel Kelty 1963 (St. Louis, MO)
A Dying Friend
Is like wheat ripening alone
near a stand of oaks,
with only the wind to stroke
its back on the quiet days.
Now in August even the raccoons
have turned their backs on the fields,
heading for water. A car
glides by imposing its monochrome blankness
onto the moment that the seeds
begin to loosen in their husks,
as if getting ready to fly.
About this poem
Publisthed in "Off the Coast" literary journal
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Submitted by dankelty on July 07, 2022
Modified on March 21, 2023
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Quick analysis:
Scheme | X XAXX XXX AXX X |
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Closest metre | Iambic tetrameter |
Characters | 360 |
Words | 75 |
Stanzas | 5 |
Stanza Lengths | 1, 4, 3, 3, 1 |
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