"HARVEST HYMNS" A POEM WRITTEN AND READ AT LOUDTHOTZ POETRY OPEN READING SEASON 4 EPISODE 1 "JANUARY FEVER" BY NATHANIEL INCREASE A 12 YEAR OLD PROTEGE

HARVEST HYMNS

Last year is withered

Her twelve leaves she shed

moon after moon anew.

This morning dew

Quenches the thirst of the budding fern,

a new year blooming.

She’s just sprouted her first leaf,

the leaf is a herb of relief

for the making of a potion,

a potion for the healing of the nation.

Let the deaf

lend an ear

from the corn,

to hear

the hymn of the harvest that is soon begun.

…. NATHANIEL INCREASE.