Tuesday, January 5, 2021

"Stark Gray and White"

 


"Stark Gray and White"

Greg Budig 2021


Dividing the ice 

covered landscape. 

A horizon of stark

gray and white. 

The prairie has no 

sanctuary from the 

frozen blood chilled air. 

Absolutely none. 


Forgiveness is not 

something the plains 

hand out in January. 

Night settles in a 

suffocating grip.

Burrows are filled 

with sleeping

skunks and raccoons. 


The sloughs are frozen 

deep into the mud. 

Dried and hollowed 

cattails reach out from 

beneath the northwest 

driven, hard packed, 

dirt covered snow. 

Gritty cold snirt.


The End 





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