POETRY

Walking the Prairie of Chase County KS

March 24, 2022

You will ask how far I walked and I will say

​​ it was to the edge of tomorrow

beyond the marked and guided path

to past the spot where the road ended

and the path began to where the wind​​ 

flowed freely over the banks​​ 

of the flowing creek​​ 

where the coyote howled in the evening light.​​ 

Past the end of the path​​ 

to where only the grasses grow​​ 

to where few men have trod and​​ 

no person was left to see but I was not alone.  

No, the spirits of all ages were riding on the wind,

​​ the birds that I could not name cooed in their nests,​​ 

the coyote laughed at me and with me.   

That is how far I walked.

 

 

 

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