From a Cold, Hot Sandwich, by (Richard) Lee Phillips
Tall gabled house on the prairie sod,
Adorned with ash and pine and elm,
With lawn and roses and white fence,
I envy your tranquility.
The blue-berried juniper, scrub cedar,
Chokecherry and thornapple
Grown in the coulees - untended - unwanted.
Spikey soapweed, delicate yellow bell,
lush sweet pea
Entwine roots with tough prairie sod.
The white bloom loco
Bowing in the wind
Nodding at the whiteness of Tossing wild onion tassles.
All things pass but the sod and the grass.
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