Shane Neilson – This Magazine https://this.org Progressive politics, ideas & culture Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:32:37 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.4 https://this.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/cropped-Screen-Shot-2017-08-31-at-12.28.11-PM-32x32.png Shane Neilson – This Magazine https://this.org 32 32 Head Pressed to Stone at St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery https://this.org/2018/04/26/head-pressed-to-stone-at-st-vincent-de-paul-cemetery/ Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:32:37 +0000 https://this.org/?p=17913 I say your name and I do grieve. All names
dredge the deep, but they fail to take heed
and sprout. Hereabouts, mustard seed got choked
by conglomerate needs rendered too economic.
Scrub grass debriefs our fields. Old Dutch
farmers sing about crop yield and claim
to have never yielded, but wrote wills to sons
who refuse to break the back of the land
open for cheques. The future left as adherents
to our religion rocket down untolled highways
that irrigate rural graveyards. But look –
in the field, see wounds the mortgage
might heal. Land remains, awaiting the farmer
of future nostalgias. Mom, I miss you.
This differgreen is slow, wild, beautiful assertion.

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