THE MUSEUM ISSUE Mary Ann Larkin   Farmer Plowing after a painting by Ross Moffett Moffett did it all in curves. The horses’ ribs billow on a great breath, stomachs curl to rumps, the farmer’s back bows to his bent arm, even his red suspenders flow. And, of course, the ribbony furrows turn and turn beneath the hills repeating like a fugue under cumulus clouds. Even the tongue of the bony white dog circled small in the corner coils to the fleas at the base of his poised tail, naming us kin: cloud....hill....farmer horse....dog....flea. Mary Ann Larkin is author of five chapbooks of poetry: gods & flesh, A Shimmering That Goes with Us, The DNA of the Heart (co-written with her husband Patric Pepper), White Clapboard, and The Coil of the Skin. Her poetry has appeared in America in Poetry and Ireland in Poetry, the art and poetry series published by Harry N. Abrams. With Patric Pepper, she is the founder of Pond Road Press which recently published a chapbook of Jack Gilbert’s poems about Pittsburgh. She was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and now lives in Washington DC and North Truro, Massachusetts. credit   Published in Volume 10, Number 1, Winter 2009.   Read more by this author: Mary Ann Larkin: DC Places Issue