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Gammal Fäbodpsalm

The deep backward bending of the prairie grass

makes this nineteenth century woman

think of sailing, of how sick the ocean

made her, her daughter, how she would ask



her husband for fresh water, how he' d descend

to a dark hold below their own and return

too long later, her throat so burned

by then she could not speak. At the end



of the gray blanket of sky, came riding

across Ohio with blank German women, a pair

of young Norwegian men who held their

arms tight to their sides as if hiding



parcels. Then, this Illinois sea, a lightning

covered sky, and twelve foot high stalks

knit so tight at the root it took an ax

to bring them down. Down in the tightened,



dense weave of the bluestem, she felt

her way to a clearing. Down in the thick

dirt she dug her way to a root ball, sick

again with a dream that she had left



her daughter on that ship. Staring down

from a moraine, she sang in Swedish,

Gammal Fäbodpsalm; she said in English:

Now. And waded into the limitless, unmown



acres of terror and comfort, the hymn

and the vision of a Smaland pasture

full in her forehead with those four

months, the child' s blanket, unpinned



like a sail as she fell through the calm,

like a sail as leaden as an old, bleak psalm.





David Wright



Copyright © 2002 David Wright

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