The Back View Poem by RIC BASTASA

I walk around
an oval path unloading
all thoughts
to the spiral winds

from a distance i see
an man with a faded blue coat
and a boy beside him wearing
a straw hat

they are watching a herd of
water
buffaloes grazing on
a stretch of grass

the morning is calm and
cold

a cable wire connects two
long poles
running above the man and
and the boy

on the cable wire is
a white dove
perching

I walk around the oval
ground
and no one is taking
the walk with
me
this early morning

from a distance i am
indifferent
seeing
only
the back view of
of things