Wednesday, July 17, 2024

To Arkansas

Horse hair on barbed wire

Humid and dust

Traveling, my thoughts and I

Come move with us


Orange juice in the Frigidaire (TM)

 Mustard and crust

Traveling, to start the day

On a school bus


Cedar smell and fire flies

Burning the brush

Traveling, shot through the sky

Companion trust


Brahma cows and hominy

Scarring at dusk

Traveling, we'll scrape and peel

The tractor rust


Copperheads and corn bread

Tornado gust

Traveling, my thoughts are fed

While shucking husks


Traveling, my thoughts and I

Come move with us

Traveling, shot through the sky

Travel with us... to Arkansas.


by Royce Waxenfelter

9/30/91

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