This poem should have been here a long time ago. One of my favorite from the summer.
The Turnip-Snedder by Seamus Heaney
For Hughie O'Donoghue
In an age of bare hands
and cast iron,
the clamp-on meat-mincer,
the double flywheeled water-pump,
it dug its heels in among wooden tubs
and troughs of slops,
hotter than body heat
in summertime, cold in winter
as winter's body armour,
a barrel-chested breast-plate
standing guard
on four braced greaves.
"This is the way that God sees life,"
it said, "from seedling-braird to snedder,"
as the handle turned
and turnip-heads were let fall and fed
to the juiced-up inner blades,
"This is the turnip-cycle,"
as it dropped its raw sliced mess,
bucketful by glistering bucketful.
The first poem from Seamus Heaney's new (2006) collection "District and Circle." Read it aloud. With an Irish accent, preferably. Especially "from seedling-braird to snedder."
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Earlier this year we listened to Seamus Heaney read Beowulf. If I get my hands on some Seamus Heaney reading poetry, I'll use it to lull me to sleep every night. For serious.
Hmm, funny you say that. He just happened to be a guest on On Point with Tom Ashbrook about a year ago. And I just happen to still have the podcast of it.
Seamus.
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