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AMAZE

Fran Masat
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

Return to the front page of this issue:   Amaze   Vol. 2, No. 2   Fall & Winter, 2003.
Go to the Poets & Authors page for the poet's biographical sketch and email link.
These poems are Copyright © 2003 by Fran Masat.

 

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