up-stirred

Updated: May 4, 2025

Everywhere throughout the great San Joaquin, unseen and unheard, a thousand ploughs up-stirred the land, tens of thousands of shears clutched deep into the warm, moist soil. It was the long stroking caress, vigorous, male, powerful, for which the Earth seemed panting.

Frank Norris - The Octopus : A story of California