Barley Field

An old woodcut of the London Bridge   

and a colored lithograph of a barley field.   

There are no other pictures on Ward D.

The London Bridge lifts sooty towers above the river.   

But it's the barley field I see.   

A golden ocean of barley.

It's not like the other grain-fields.   

Maybe it's those inward-looking eyes   

gone into it so it becomes heaven?

A fall-colored sky, mild,   

with no harvesters and no scythes.