the badlands
a roan stallion guarding
the mares

the high plains
a scattering of wildflowers
adding color

prairie slough
chasing a fluff of down
flycatcher

hail warning
a quarter section of wheat
ready to harvest

old paths
a gravel escarpments 
rising out of the prairie

 

wheat fields
a red-tailed hawk soars
in a pale sky

a dusty moon
combines working the fields
late into the night

birdsongs
fading into the dusk
prairie shadows

redwing blackbirds
a patch of brown cattails
marking boundaries

a bird alights
and then flies on
Indian summer

wind whistling
in a fieldstone fence
empty homestead

 

a hot night
full of heat lightning
sounds of silence

county fair
showers of light
in a black sky

prairie heat
riding the updrafts
a Swainson's hawk

 

 

 

THE OUTLAWPOETS