Duane L. Herrmann

A spot of red in the snow –
tiny, isolated,
easy to be missed.
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Over the fields and prairie
creeks and tree lines
endless miles
of countryside,
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I go across the prairie;
alone... to a place,
private...
not even I can enter.
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I plow the paper with a pen
engaged as the family has been
in cultivation: sowing and reaping.
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The heat had been forever:
constant oven-wind
shriveled leaves and trees.
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People of the Wind:
a fitting name
for those who lived
on the windy plains.
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They died with their boots on
so the legend goes,
and maybe some of them did.
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Towers of the Spring,
rising billowy brown
climbing high in the sky...
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The sky-floor miles below,
earth lower still,
furrowed white plains
stretch to the horizon.
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