My daughter laughed
                                              and said
                             she could only hear
                                                  her boots
                                            but couldn't you hear
                                         it too?
                                         The prairie swelling,
                                             the dark and trembling crescendo in
                                                 the thawing earth
                                            as the bilateral state
                                                       begins to unfurl
                                             towards
                                                        away
                                             and I begin
                                          to remember
                                                       the shock value
                                                             of
                                                                    green

 

© by Katrin Talbot.
Used with the author's permission.