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Amanjot D
Guest
Prairie Flight
In Canada
no need for abstract painters.
farmers have shaped
with their hands, their boots, their horses’ hooves
last, with tractors
a bright geometry imposed
on buffalo bones
Staring at land
only for wheat and hay
with the curled rivers and lakes
sore thumbs
right in their way
those silent carves of the land
send messages they never see.
In Canada
no need for abstract painters.
farmers have shaped
with their hands, their boots, their horses’ hooves
last, with tractors
a bright geometry imposed
on buffalo bones
Staring at land
only for wheat and hay
with the curled rivers and lakes
sore thumbs
right in their way
those silent carves of the land
send messages they never see.