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- English
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In this collection, Anna Jackson's poems deal thoughtfully and elegantly with motherhood, family, and the environment. Her ideas often assume unexpected forms, appearing as hens, vending machines, or grass within her poetry. Also addressed in these poems is the fate of today's animals in their restricted habitats, which is dealt with in poems such as "Dodo," "Butterflies," and "The Pastoral Elephant."
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The pastoral elephant
And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground … And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering: but to Cain and to his offering he had not respect.
— Genesis, 4:2–5
Feet
The pastoral farmer
walks over the earth
with many feet.
The arable farmer
digs in alone,
undoes
the earth, to start
again, create
a clean slate.
Feet fall like rain,
move off
again.
Eden
When the Persian Gulf was flat
and dry, that
was our summer time, our
Eden.
We could live there today,
on holiday,
in a tent, with or without
a portable TV.
I could manage with the children
even,
lying out on the grass,
fruit falling into our mouths,
we could let the gazelle
pass.
For our paleolithic family
it was a paradise,
and our numbers grew.
Our family grew like grass.
Flood
The end of the ice age
released the seas
and where we lived in paradise
is now the Persian Gulf.
We were so many when we
climbed to the highlands.
Too many to live
on fruit and fish,
wheat was our saving
and our undoing
and the undoing
of our entangled world.
We carried it in on the stalk,
not the apple but the wheat,
and learnt to till and toil.
In the sweat
of our faces
we le...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- The pastoral kitchen
- The pastoral elephant
- References
- By the same author
- Copyright