Thursday, August 20, 2009

Authentic grace

Spiny-Toothed Gumweed sticky with pine smell.
Another flower I see but can't name.
Two deer leap from a cornfield.
Brown bodies burst through stalks like machetes.
Run wildly wild hearts.
The sun's golden cast makes the river blue the more.
Two ladybugs each with at least five spots sway on a stamen.
Long shadows and the flow of tall grasses,
crickets and clouds.
So many types of goldenrod.
The river seems to speak but what does it say?
A combine slumbers--a necessary break following
a wet day.
Rough Blazing Star lights up the prairie--
purple spears rise from the earth.
Maximilian Sunflowers tall and top-heavy.
Pointed yellow petals line the roadway.
This walk is alive yet haunts the soul.
For the grip of love we yearn, yet may we fly away free.