This poem is taken from Stand 226, 18(2) June - August 2020.

Edward Mackinnon Two Poems
A Finnish Story*

Landless, she worked on the land of a great landlord and his lady
    where the grass was lush and fat cows blinked at the northern light
But she had to walk thirty miles with a fish and a pound of butter
    and having an honest heart she told everyone she met on the way
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