IT SEEMS IMPOSSIBLE



Where once there was crisis,
there's now only a cornfield,

here Shays was defeated
near a road I got lost on, 

and the neighbors remembered, 
though what they remembered

there's no way to tell, for 
the flags blew both ways

and the flowers bloomed
irrespective, aloof 

from our dramas
or their stone markers,

but a weary driver 
looked around to imagine

the day that men's blood 
watered this field, then

wondered how to find a
way back to the present.


The last battle of Shays' Rebellion
Sheffield, Mass.
July 2004

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