Kansa*
south wind
blowing dry through
vast fields of amber wheat
rippling to meet a clear blue sky
Kansas
prairie
stretching beyond
ripening dry-land milo
spanning the white day to sunset
highway
driving
through ancient lands
sensing ancestral ways
I am proud, grateful for my past -
compelled
*The Kansas River, thence Kansas, was named by the Kansa Indians living
along its banks. "Kansa" is a Sioux word meaning "people of the South Wind."
December Solstice
early
dusk everywhere
before the sun starts back
sensed in a subliminal way -
primal
stillness
shrouds the moment
unknowable to us
a fleeting point in space and time -
perfect
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Amaze Vol.
2, No. 2 Fall & Winter, 2003.
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These poems are Copyright © 2003 by Fran Masat.
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