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| What Once Was, Tracey Maras |
as forceful breeze
unsettles tenacious
sanded tufts
of spare prairie grass
two-lane highway
slashes defiantly
through acres
of mesquite trees
amidst myriad cacti
abundant scrub brush
burying its unclear end
in ubiquitous horizon
lone mesquite bug
searching relentlessly
for that one, brief sexual encounter
of its meager existence
poking his head out
from rotting tree stump
after lifetime of sleep
and mechanized consumption
with tornado, flood and drought
where uncertainty prevails
as ringmaster beneath the tent
of the vast starry sky
where life begins and ends
where the semblance of what is
may vanish in mere moments
where metamorphosis is expected
End of November 2011 poems
