July 03, 2017

Long Ride to Starkweather, 1962

(c) 2017

 Wheat.
Corn.
Wheat.
Wheat.
Dirt.
Alfalfa.
Wheat. Wheat.  
Station wagon passes on our left,
this musters a three second stare.
Against the side view window
a Bumble bee splats. Half its wingless body
shredding in the wind.
Wheat.
Corn. Wheat.
Alfalfa. Wheat.
Wheat. Elm Tree. Small white house.
The red-birded whirligig is not swirling.
Sheep.
Corn.
Wheat.
On-coming truck, cab flat-faced as a pug, hauling chickens.
One chicken. Two chicken.
Feathers. Dust
to dust.
We aren’t there, yet. When? When?
Wheat.
Wheat.
Alfalfa.
Wheat.

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