On the Fence
Protecting land
corn farm alternating soybean fields
a son more worried
about not being wrong
than being right.
.
Hiding feeling behind earthquakes
clouds in the mind
small disruptions
smeared red and blurred
confusion runs
blushing angry
into a wall.
.
Some people lay dormant for one hundred years
before blooming again.
.
Like larger questions, the spindly shoots
are tightly wrapped with last year’s harvest
loamy soil
worm droppings and flower petals
too deep to untangle.
