New Feet
memory
war
free verse
haunting
EMPTY battlefields keep their phantoms. Grass crawls over old gun wheels And a nodding Canada thistle flings a purple Into the summer's southwest wind, Wrapping a root in the rust of a bayonet, Reaching a blossom in rust of shrapnel.
New Feet - meaning Summary
Nature Reclaiming War
The poem shows how nature reclaims former battlefields, combining images of plant life and remnants of war. Ghostly memories linger while grass, thistles and blooms grow through and around rusted weapons and shrapnel. It presents a quiet, resolute scene of regeneration that does not erase violence but enfolds its material traces into a living landscape, suggesting endurance and the slow domestication of conflict by the natural world.
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