The waste memory-wastes

Grant Mclennan (12 de Fevereiro de 1958 – 6 de Maio 2006)

CATTLE AND CANE

“I recall a schoolboy coming home
Through fields of cane
To a house of tin and timber
And in the sky a rain of falling cinders.
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
(...)
I recall a bigger brighter world
A world of books
And silent times in thought
And then the railroad
The railroad takes him home
Through fields of cattle
Through fields of cane
From time to time
The waste memory-wastes
Further, longer, higher, older.”