The farmer's bride

A quietly intense poetic collection opens with a farmer’s first‑person account of marrying a very young woman. He describes her as a shy, almost otherworldly creature who flits between the fields and the house, terrified of intimacy and the demands of village life. The verses blend the rhythms of harvest work with the trembling emotions of a marriage that feels both tender and fragile.

Through vivid seasonal imagery—autumn lights, winter snow, the hum of livestock—the poet explores how love can be as unsettled as the countryside itself. The narrator’s voice is both proud and plaintive, caught between the desire to protect his bride and the frustration of her lingering fear. Listeners are drawn into a world where every rustle of wheat and distant owl call becomes a metaphor for longing, making the early part of the work a compelling portrait of rural yearning.