Auburn mares and black stallions
A lonesome period ranch bathed in chicory
Dusk , field dust clinging to lower pasture , tractors
race with sundown , o'er checkerboard fields , 'cross
firebreaks , wooden fencerow and worked field furrow
Rolling persimmon braided shadow , cool blue palette
of the Evening Star , of the orange sky divide , of hay wagon ,
bale , callous and blister , Killdeer crying for the gibbous Moon ,
of black backgrounds that cradle a billion stars with Hill Country
Whippoorwill sonatas* ..