The Ghost Farm

By Pamela Stewart

This is a powerful collection of poems by a recognized poet in which she examines life both spiritually and physically, not only life on the farm where she has been living and working for the past several years, but also life as a woman, a wife, and a lover of people. Several poems deal with her interaction with Tibetan Buddhists who live and work with her on her farm. One poem was awarded with the prestigious Pushcart Prize in 2011.

• Language: English
• Publisher: PBS Publications
• Release date: Mar 4, 2020
• ISBN: 9781545722466

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TANSY WORMWOOD SAGE

Who watered these greens

and greys? Who cut

and dried to feed her sheep in winter?

Who touched the red bull’s neck?

It doesn’t matter, but I felt her

as the herbs were cut today.

The faded clapboard house

warmed with October’s sun.

It doesn’t matter, but I stood there

one moment more exact than ever

returning home.

A TIBETAN MAN IN HAWLEY, MASSACHUSETTS

Just one step off the edge into the deep

wrong place and a shoe pulls off, is lost.

Amidst twigs, leaves, mosses and stones, this shoe

cannot be found by eyes or strong hands.

Even digging into the exact place the shoe exited its foot,

farther down than the shoe could have delved,

there’s no black shoe! What now?

The man stands in thick dry grasses at road’s edge

and decides on the one thing children in his village

were taught to do. Slipping off

his other shoe he flings it over to where the first black