Jan Kent
"Second Childhood; Make Mine Country"

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(Photo by Tom Caroll)

(Photo by Tom Caroll)

(Photo by Charles Fyer)

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Give me your country childhood –
I want it
No, I need it.

Give me ocean spray and fog
to soak up through the pores of my young skin
Give me fiddlehead ferns
Along the bank of a turtle-filled creek.
Give me a sunset I can see down to the distant horizon,
where it slides into the stubble of a harvested field.

I was a city child,
but it left me incomplete, restless, not fully knitted up.
Knowing your childhood makes me ache and yearn and cry.

Surely it’s not too late to be a country child.

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