Showing posts with label The Plowboy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Plowboy. Show all posts

Friday, May 2, 2014

half light

'The Gloaming'  18x24" oil pastel on board;  Kathleen Faulkner


The Plowboy

After the last red sunset glimmer,
Black on the line of a low hill rise,
Formed into moving shadows, I saw
A plowboy and two horses lined against the gray,
Plowing in the dusk the last furrow.
The turf had a gleam of brown,
And a smell of soil was in the air,
And, cool and moist, a haze of April.

I shall remember you long,
Plowboy and horses against the sky in shadow.
I shall remember you and the picture
You made for me,
Turning the turf in the dusk
And haze of an April gloaming.

Carl Sandburg