Nothing that
important
about a
quiet wheel
barrow on the
western front
– Gavel K. Lindsay (copyright 2007)
Note
This poem arrived by e-mail today.
Here’s what its author wrote along with it:
How about a mixed-genre William Carlos Williams variant? This one blends the novel by Erich Maria Remarque with Williams’ Red Wheelbarrow.
Cheers, Gavel
Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) is the author of the novel Im Westen nichts Neues (All Quiet on the Western Front), published in 1929, about World War I. The film classic All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930 is based on this novel.
American poet William Carlos Williams lived from 1883 to 1963.
As far as I can tell, these two writers have nothing in common.
J.S.
Steer Forth! 
so much depends
upon
a red splotched wheel
barrow
glazed with cow
dung
beside the white
shell crater.
so much depends
upon
the foil – lined
wheel-barrow
drying sliced
apples
beside the
laundry-line.
Back-to-the-land, simplicity movement variation on the “Red Wheelbarrow”. Not nearly so evocative, more a how-to. 🙂
Thank you both, Madhava and suburbanlife, for your high-caliber creative input!
Tell Gavel, his combination is marvelous!