Images on a Prairie Road

By

James Gerwing

A halfburnt house gapes

stupidly at scruffy trees

behind a green field.

A church steeple

waits patiently

in the thinning poplar bush.

Grey clouds weep unashamedly

on the shoulders of green hills.

Spindly telephone poles

march quietly

beside a thin dirt road.

Fat cattle

gorge themselves

in luscious pastures.