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Plow Boy

Plow Boy Scotty Lee Hamilton Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1973, p. 49 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0049 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442286/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:36 GMT from JHU Libraries Plow Boy Sweat streaked shoulders shining in the sun, Tan, leather-tough muscles.... Boy plowing between the darknesses. All day long he makes new earth of old In the sun. He has plowed so much He is a man. Can plow all day without Thinking~of plowing. The harness presses sores into the mule's Back as plow-lines rub blisters on the Boy's shoulders as the sun burns them both. There's no shade on either side of a "swingle tree". The boy drains the day dryer than the sun, Plodding the freshly turned earth alone. Though he hasn't made any promises yet, And though he knows that in the end All he can truly call his own Are his thoughts andhis scars, he sets a Measured pace and keeps it. "You get more Work done that way," his father says, and You don't fool the mule. Scotty Lee Hamilton For information on Scotty Lee Hamilton see first issue. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Appalachian Review University of North Carolina Press

Plow Boy

Hamilton, Scotty Lee.
Appalachian Review , Volume 1 (2) – Jan 8, 2014
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Scotty Lee Hamilton Appalachian Heritage, Volume 1, Number 2, Spring 1973, p. 49 (Article) Published by The University of North Carolina Press DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1973.0049 For additional information about this article https://muse.jhu.edu/article/442286/summary Access provided at 19 Feb 2020 23:36 GMT from JHU Libraries Plow Boy Sweat streaked shoulders shining in the sun, Tan, leather-tough muscles.... Boy plowing between the darknesses. All day long he makes new earth of old In the sun. He has plowed so much He is a man. Can plow all day without Thinking~of plowing. The harness presses sores into the mule's Back as plow-lines rub blisters on the Boy's shoulders as the sun burns them both. There's no shade on either side of a "swingle tree". The boy drains the day dryer than the sun, Plodding the freshly turned earth alone. Though he hasn't made any promises yet, And though he knows that in the end All he can truly call his own Are his thoughts andhis scars, he sets a Measured pace and keeps it. "You get more Work done that way," his father says, and You don't fool the mule. Scotty Lee Hamilton For information on Scotty Lee Hamilton see first issue.

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