Thanks for posting these, Tim. I hadn't read the Hope piece before--wonderful detail. Fine poems all (including your own).
I wonder if Wordsworth's "Solitary Reaper" might almost count as a mowing poem--what is the difference, if any, between reaping and mowing? Is it a crop of grain versus grass for hay? Or is that a stupid question? (She asks, naively, having never done any mowing--or reaping, for that matter.)
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