Great Regulars: The "white buffalo" may be drained of color

by the sun-glare optics, it may be albino, or it may be a spiritual being--or all of these things. The narrator is surprised by the buffalo, but he cannot rouse the birds nor the girls, who accept this cosmos. The falling of night quiets his fears, as natural order returns. [James] Tate shows Kansas as a mythic place.

Late Harvest

from Denise Low: Ad Astra Poetry Project: James Tate

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