Corn Is in the Blood
- John Brantingham
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Corn Is in the Blood
Today, I think, is a good day. I’m on a cell phone, looking at the nearly frozen
over Chadakoin River, talking to my mother in California. Today, my mother can
remember Indiana, where she was a girl, and I talk to her, me a New Yorker and she a Hoosier three thousand miles apart. She talks to me about corn fields. My wife is a Californian and my adopted daughter isEgyptian, but we all speak the universal
languages of grain, deserts, coasts, and rivers, and today my mother is a girl again, still walking barefoot in fields of corn.
Biography: John Brantingham is currently and always thinking about radical wonder. He is a New York State Council on the Arts Grant Recipient for 2024, and he was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been in hundreds of magazines and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has twenty-two books of poetry, nonfiction, and fiction.
Image: Unsplash, downloaded (https://unsplash.com/photos/green-grass-field-during-sunset-82m3-eWMr3U) 9. 9. 2025.
