Harry Ploughman

After Gerard Manley Hopkins

With a fountain’s shining shot furls, palm and heel of hand flit, muscle- skin fraps, fanted speed; erumpent swing, and here arm falcated; eolian; feet-base edaphic, each bend a camber: wait, carmine and cerise: wait, what breath of body becomes chaff, skin, abraded toward soil-on-bone.