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Wheatfields

from Heartlands by Arthur Durkee

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Wheatfields

I sat in the back seat
om the long drive to church,
I was trapped in the coffin
of my Sunday clothes

Jacket too warm, collar too tight,
I saw the wheatfield
I played in all summer
as the family car drove by

Sunlight flashed through roadside trees
while the endless wheat
bent under summer sun
where I ran shirtless yesterday

Though still just a boy
I thought to myself:
I could praise God better
from this acre of grass

Than I ever could have done
in church, and more purely;
I could praise all Creation,
I could sing a wheat psalm

That was the morning
I threw open my heart
I saw God in the world
and the vision has never ended.

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from Heartlands, released February 22, 2019
solo: Edward Anderson

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Arthur Durkee Ann Arbor, Michigan

Arthur Durkee is a composer & songwriter who records & performs on Chapman Stick, bass, analog modular synths, bamboo & wood flutes, keys, frame drums, and voice. He has won awards for composed, notated music as well as for his recordings, & is a published poet, & designer & illustrator. ... more

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