Getting The Electricity On Poem by Katherine Gallagher

Getting The Electricity On

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The farm has changed, face-lifted
since we put away the lamps
or hung them up with lanterns, as antiques.
The house is new-veined, lush.

Getting the current switched through — such
fever, a district-do to celebrate:
“We’ll be like the townsfolk now,” we sang.
My mother saw the world transformed
by a washing-machine and fridge.

My father, caught by progress in a skein
that swept about his ears,
tracked voyages round the farm
reassured by the sameness of the stars
and lanterns lighting his mind.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Dawn Fuzan 17 May 2014

Katherine A beautifully written poem. Keep it up

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