Corn Hut Talk
Corn Hut Talk - meaning Summary
Harvest Wishes and Warmth
The poem invites listeners into a communal Corn Hut where harvest rituals and seasonal changes frame desires and small, tangible tokens of remembrance. It contrasts summer abundance with November's winds and winter fires, asking for simple gifts—shoes, shirts, a sumach leaf—to mark affection and memory. The speaker wishes to be included in the communal warmth and music of the fire, becoming part of the winter celebration and its remembered faces.
Read Complete AnalysesWRITE your wishes on the door and come in. Stand outside in the pools of the harvest moon. Bring in the handshake of the pumpkins. There's a wish for every hazel nut? There's a hope for every corn shock? There's a kiss for every clumsy climbing shadow? Clover and the bumblebees once, high winds and November rain now. Buy shoes for rough weather in November. Buy shirts to sleep outdoors when May comes. Buy me something useless to remember you by. Send me a sumach leaf from an Illinois hill. In the faces marching in the firelog flickers, In the fire music of wood singing to winter, Make my face march through the purple and ashes. Make me one of the fire singers to winter.
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