Grain Ear

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    Indigenous to Minnesota, and almost completely ignored by its people, are the stark, unornamented, functional clusters of concrete—Minnesota’s grain elevators. These may be said to express unconsciously all the principles of modernism, being built for use only, with little regard for the tenets of esthetic design.
    —Federal Writers’ Project Of The Wor, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Darling Death
    shouted in his ear,
    his ear made to record
    the least, the most finespun
    of worm-cries and
    dragonfly-jubilations....
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)