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Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)

Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers)

Last updated on: January 23, 2014 at 6:01 am by David Breeden

Flying Over the Squares (for small farmers) 2014-01-23T06:01:54-07:00 David Breeden

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The little towns in their squares

light up, as do the scattered

lights of farmyards in the tilting,

fuzzy squares they’re locked in.

I balance a Chilian red

on a bumpy flight out to

one of those squares.

The West is red too,

after we bump to a

cruising altitude through

clouds threatening snow.

I’ve been here before,

but not in this sundown;

in these clouds;

drinking this wine;

in the lines of this poem.

Somewhere out there

I’ve been on the last

cool ride in the back

of a truck at evening,

watching a huge moon rise

and knowing this, too,

would be a last.

We knew that time would pass;

we knew we, too, would pass;

we knew that the land

would not forget us

because it never heard

our cries anyway.

We knew it, but

the terrible wrench

of knowing it

again and again—

the land proved careful

about showing us that,

or perhaps even we

might have rebelled.

Perhaps even we

might have blown out

our little lights

in the squares

and called it a night

with no tomorrow.

Land, what would you

have done without

our fierce burning?

What would we have done,

without our fierce burning?

For now, there is the red.

Then, the darkness,

but for the burning.

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