Friday, September 10, 2010

Prairie Ride

The curved steel window frames
 rusted monsters
suspended above the land,
throwing sheets of white water silk
on the soybean’s hanging dark green tongues.

Black fins cut past a wall of
bleached standing corn.
The dinosaur curved trunk releases
dusty white clouds
into the steamed air of a baby blue sky.

Greased rubber tires rule
the width of this empty road.
And the thunderbird dreams on.

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