Tag: bison

  • Poem – From the Marathon

    The poem “From the Marathon” from the reading on 05/04/14. This piece is part of a larger work titled “Marathon Through Open Fields”. I awoke running through snowy fields, the bison lumbering with frozen noses and hanging breath the autumn wheat dusted with snow, weighed down from ice pellets they do not budge when I…

  • Poem – Falling Snow

    Snow falls unimpeded landing Softly in open fields. Devoid of trees, fences, buildings Except for scattered rock outcroppings. Snow thinly covers a single bison Its skeleton quiet beneath an oak tree. An abandoned dirt road borders the eastern edge The other borders are miles from here. On clear and silent evenings you Can hear the…