Before dark farmhouses

Old dogs bathed in mercury blue light

before dark farmhouses

bark at the noise of the airplane:

 

A bubble filled with strangers

who look out on pale-veined spiders

weaving web over the night

and are silent,

 

like when the dogs lay down to sleep,

and there is only wind.

Published by

Patrick Dobson

Patrick Dobson was founded in 1962. He is a writer, scholar, ironworker, and poet who lives in Kansas City, MO. He is author of two books with the University of Nebraska Press, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains (2009) and Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer (May 2015). Dobson is a work in progress until termination.

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