"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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"Sheltering the Creative Spirit"
Taos, New Mexico USA
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People From the Valley
by Keith Wilson -- for Frank Waters
The farmers come, come
on down the Pecos Valley
in busted-bottom wagons
their children thin
blonde cornhusk hair
blowing
Sparrows watch dry ruts
for spilled kernels
the men, stiff, formal
black suit, white shirts,
the women searching for
other wagons, bright bonnets.
Cottonwood leaves clash
green in Saturday’s wind
as the quiet children sit
aware they
will be watched by
townboys in their victor clothes
the dark eyes of townsmen
watching for any beauty
the land has missed, its
women, this land hungers
for women, and for farmers
who can write their own obituaries
in the lines of their hard hands.
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