At North Farm
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At North Farm by John Ashbery
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“At North Farm” is from A Wave – a 1984 collection of poetry from Ashbery – and is often one of his anthologized poems included within his Selected Poems.
Like most Ashbery poems, it is difficult to tell exactly what “At North Farm” is about. A common theory is it is a revision of Santa Claus, ren...
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Somewhere someone is traveling furiously toward you,
At incredible speed, traveling day and night,
Through blizzards and desert heat, across torrents, through narrow passes.
But will he know where to find you,
Recognize you when he sees you,
Give you the thing he has for you?
Hardly anything grows here,
Yet the granaries are bursting with meal,
The sacks of meal piled to the rafters.
The streams run with sweetness, fattening fish;
Birds darken the sky. Is it enough
That the dish of milk is set out at night,
That we think of him sometimes,
Sometimes and always, with mixed feelings?
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When did John-ashbery release At North Farm?
John-ashbery released At North Farm on Sun Jan 01 1984.