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Thistle Cutting.(Poem)

Quadrant

| January 01, 2002 | Marwood, Lorraine | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright
 
THISTLE CUTTING 
 
   Once he hankered after thistle-cutting 
   ten or twenty slashed with the sharp 
   flash of his father's shovel, 
   when school was finished 
   and he'd bused and biked home 
   to the dairy farm. 
 
   Garnishes they were, little flourishes 
   of deep green, toeing right down 
   into the wet clay of the irrigation 
   bays. His father explained that ...
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