Wild Peaches by Elinor Wylie | Poetry Foundation
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When the world turns completely upside down
Share 1 When the world turns completely upside down You say we’ll emigrate to the Eastern Shore Aboard a river-boat from Baltimore; We’ll live among wild peach trees, miles from town, You’ll wear a coonskin cap coonskin cap A cap made from a raccoon pelt , and I a gown Homespun, dyed butternut butternut A shade of yellow similar to khaki. In the Civil War, some Confederate soldiers wore butternut-colored uniforms, leading them to be nicknamed Butternuts. Southern sympathizers in the North were also referred to as Butternuts. ’s dark gold color. Lost, like your lotus-eating ancestor lotus-eatin
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