Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes. I see them place the hones
In their hip-pockets as a thing that's done,
And start their silent swinging, one by one.
Black horses drive a mower through the weeds,
And there, a field rat, startled, squealing bleeds,
His belly close to ground. I see the blade,
Blood-stained, continue cutting weeds and shade.
Reapers
Jean Toomer
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Poem topics: steel, field, shade, place, continue, silent, start, sound, black, Print This Poem , Rhyme Scheme
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