Rural Sunrise

Furrows erupt

Like spokes of a wheel

From the hub of the sun—

The field is overrun—

No rut lies fallow

As shadows yield

Plow and bucket

Cart and barrow

Samuel Menashe

From The Niche Narrows:
New and Selected Poems,
Talisman House, Publishers,
© 2000.  Reprinted by
permission of the author.