Hot, hot summer,
dry golden fields of wheat,
harvested
Hot, hot summer,
thunder of a thousand boots
on dry golden fields of wheat
Fire and death
on scorched fields of wheat,
blood harvest
– Niebla (© 2011)
Written and posted for ‘wheat’ at One Single Impression.
This alludes to the beginning of World War I in the summer of 1914 and, more precisely, to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s novel August 1914, which is about the war on the eastern front, where the Russian army suffered a decisive defeat at the Battle of Tannenberg in East Prussia in August of 1914.


