Carolina QuotesAt night there are no more farmers, no more farms. At night the fields dream, the fields are the forest. The boy stands looking at the fox As if, if he looked long enough — he looks at it. Or is it the fox is looking at the boy? The trees can't tell the two of them apart.
Randall Jarrell Carolinian
Source
"Field and Forest," lines 45-50
- work
- The Lost World (1965)
- year
- 1965
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“At night there are no more farmers, no more farms. At night …” Randall Jarrell. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-6262047199. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/6262047199
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