Single Entity

The following may be one of my new favorite poems. I'm not sure, but I keep returning to it out of interest. It's by Robert Hass, from his collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997-2005. It is the first poem in the collection, which is part of the reason I find it so interesting, along with its brevity and layers of complexity.

Iowa, January

In the long winter nights, a farmer's dreams are narrow.
Over and over, he enters the furrows.

Another thing I particularly like is the title of the last poem in the collection: September, Inverness. The mirroring just makes me happy.