Prairie Schooners
Saint Paul, 15 January 2004
Sunflowers behold your antecedents
Like a congregation of witnesses
Whispers heard above a windstorm
Voices filter through wind-bent grass
Like earthen shards of genetic vessels
Listing like the windmill’s dangling vane
Waves of evaporative binary return
To the cosmos like weary sightseers
Waving from prairie schooners
Streaming past your narrative
The bleached sheets of un-fetched laundry
Blinded by the South Dakota sun