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Retablo: The Cornhusk Girl

from The Mechanism by Mitch Goldwater

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Retablo: The Cornhusk girl

The wind
winds through the field,
tells sisters three
to lift their leaves,

and then say
gather me
in cloth and beads,
picked from the world
to be the cornhusk girl.

You knew her then
a green young thing,
face as soft as silken thread,
and a body slung
for harvesting light

from the sun.
And with the season done,
call her cornhusk girl.

You know her now—She’s just
an old yellowed thing—

We tell our tales
of men of straw
who silent stay
and ease all day
just to scare crows away.

But whose
pages praise
these faceless girls
who’d fed their world
every hungry day?

If you’d known her then,
a hard, greened thing,
skin as dark as dusky grass,
a body bent
from harvesting light

from the sun.
And when the season’s done,
she’ll be the cornhusk girl
She’s the cornhusk girl

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from The Mechanism, track released February 28, 2022

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Mitch Goldwater started stirring syllables and song together as a tot, after he sat agog listening to John Lennon's words "flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup." Mitch went on to study and teach poetry writing (unlike Lennon, who, thankfully, did not). Nowadays he mostly crouches between song & poetry trying to fit the one into the other, right where he thinks they belong. ... more

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