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Otto wrote:
> 
> My idea is that the first line builds up a tension, raises expectations of
> something really important. But these expectations aren't fulfilled by the
> second line. A wheel barrow isn't that important, even if it glazes from
> rain water. And chickens, oh je, what to make of that? Definitely the red
> wheel-barrow, the rain water and the white chickens are those contradictory
> clues that resist any consistency Perloff means.


OK, cool. 

My reading is simple. A red wheel barrow glazed with rain water and
white chickens all go together on a farm and all are very important. A
farmer's life  depends on the rain, his tools, his animals.