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C.A. LaRue, colors, corn, heartland, poem, poetry lab, yellow
I’m posting one of my own poems as a special request from a reader of the AY COLORES! Poetry Lab that came out earlier today. This poem originally appeared in the Pleasures Issue of the McNeese Review.
IN THE HEARTLAND
The farmer says with his arm
elbow-deep in the earth that
he is shaking the hand of God
and I am terrified to think of
such a giant–
unasleep, watching,
his mouth sucking the tips of
my feet as I am walking row to
row, field to field, my belly as
yellow as the corn.
–C.A. LaRue
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