ENGINES, ENGINES, AND MORE ENGINES

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January/February 1957
A. PRESTON GRAY 
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As I bring this inadequate article to a close, let me pause, before I do so, for we have finished the threshing job at my boyhood home. The crew has departed. The neighbors have gone their several ways. With the belt thrown, the engine moves down the road with an apparent new freedom. The horse drawn 'thresh box' lumbers along and at each depression in the road I see dust dislodged and shaken into the air. Everything seems quiet and lonely about the barn-lot. Father is cleaning up the screenings off the barn floor, assisted by mother's ducks which after taking to the water, each have a passport to duck-heaven, for some of the screenings were oats!

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I am bare-footed and as I walk along the wide tracks, digging my toes into the grooves made by the diagonal cleats, and wondering how long we could keep those pictured intaglio sculptures or that pile of ashes, to me sacred, as if from the altar fires of some deity. Happy Days were those to me, but they are gone, save in memory. The Tide of Time moves on and those of you who helped to make the poetic history to which I refer, and those who read 'THE IRON-MEN ALBUM' and edit and write the thrilling record of its pages, are all poets who cherish the beautiful, the true and the good, as you plan for the future and preserve the past.

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