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Philip Booth

Sixty

Spring hills, dark contraries: a glade in a fall valley, its one flower steeped with sun.… More »

Ox-Pull: Canaan Fair

OLD before Odysseus failed to plow his son, great-flanked oxen knew the drag, the burden man devised beyond his strength to pull. Now lever, wheel, and piston make a spectacle of strength, but still the heave of shoulder, haul of yoke, drag slabbed granite older than Egypt, dredging a stone-sled up through Europe to this new country fair. And under oxblood maple-turn, the herd whip Spins a locust song in the Indian Summer air. … More »

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