- -after Millet
In the middle of the day, in the great shadow
of the grain stack, the harvesters
are resting and having their midday meal.
Boaz is approaching with a woman.
Meticulous as cattle in their attention
to the task of resting and feeding,
some of them seem not to have noticed.
Others regard her with the slow,
blind, thorough look that cattle have,
spellbound in the noontime heat.
David Ferry
Dwelling Places (1993)
(The titleilletHarvest is the title of a painting by
Millet in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Originally Millet called it Ruth and Boaz. DF)
