tall grass
there’s a place just off the path
where the tall grass is pressed down
fingers scratched from a prickly plant
growing up through the tall grass
hay strewn across the tall grass
caught in hair, on clothing
tall grass bathed in the full moonlight
like a day-for-night shot in a movie
still the next morning the tall grass
retains the shape of the night before
and in the laundry basket there is tall grass
and hay and a prickly plant waiting to be removed
27 April 2013
Auburn AL
