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.