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Clover

[ASR] A Great Plains poem.

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Clover

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Time spanned the sphere of a clover cluster,
inspected by the bee that could not see
beyond horizon to the tree whose shadow
shifted towards it.

Time was measured east to west,
the grass recording every breeze
by bending to my thoughts
that withered under clovered fragrance
of a sweltering afternoon.

Too soon, I left this rest stop bench
and stepped to time once more,
while all stood still in that emptiness
devoid of hills. The silent blades
just waved a friendly rhyme goodbye.

Kåre Enga © 2004

Catalogue number: [161.351]
18 juli 2004.

Notes: Written along Hwy 75 in Kansas.