Thursday, December 06, 2018

earth note 636


sunflower fields
roll over a kansas flatlander
leading you past
the last tree etching
distance is a sepia
     misleading
for what's left of daylight
drooping in the well of your eye
dust settles
and your eye adjusts
to this new world order
same as the old ones
     false promises and land speculators
where the road looks back
sometimes laughing
knowing that there's more to it
than two-lane mileposts
heaving concrete
and abandoned tractors

the many shades of the iris
is where the sunflowers bloom

--- e b bortz

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