ALT 6 white peonies and their shaggy leaves taken from above on a brown table. Next, the poem in the magazine, which reads: Work/Life A man coaxes a dresser to stand up from a schematic on his workbench. A woman snips peonies. She rights their heavy heads in a jar on her dining room table. What makes them beautiful is too much for them to bear. And possibly the most direct route to upright is the miracle of corn and soybeans standing in ripples on this Pennsylvania land. Three draft horses move as one to wake the earth, hitching gear jangling as if to say, "Get up, take up your mat, and walk."