27 September 2009

Nineteen couplets on the cost of progress.

In the latest issue of the New Yorker, there is a poem by our friend Wendell Berry. It's called "A Speech to the Garden Club of America" and you should read it. You can't top this: "Let us enlighten, then, our earthly burdens / By going back to school, this time in gardens"

2 comments:

Steve Thorngate said...

Wendell Berry is your FRIEND?!

liz said...

aaaaak I just read this last night! am putting in on my wall or my face or something. so great.