News at Eleven: In April, when flowers should have nodded,

And farmer's draft horses should have plodded
Through fields agreen with rows of growing grain,
The dust bowl came and blew it all away.

What I like about this almost-parody is the way [Jilly] Dybka captures the slightly-off experience of reading Chaucer today. This is a literary in-joke, I guess, but it's not a very exclusive one.

from Bookslut: Trouble and Honey by Jilly Dybka

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