 Photograph from 1892 of a pile of American bison skulls in Detroit (MI) waiting to be ground for fertilizer or charcoal. Origin, photographer not known. 19th Century Bison Extermination They thundered like, well, thunder over bluestem and sandstone rolling over prairie bulldozed by glaciers a few minutes before by steel plows a few minutes later They thundered like thousand drumbeats a herd murmuration skeining, patterning, over unpatterned plains They thundered like steam engines converging on the the stockyards of Abilene miles of railway cars loaded with fertilizer crushed from their previous skulls They thundered like Oklahoma frackquakes drillers desperate for a few dollars more shoving shale aside to harvest rotting Jurassic plankton from inland oceans that splashed here just an hour before They thundered while they ran They ran while they could Their time was glorious Running like thunder Skyler Lovelace Skyler Lovelace is an artist working in Wichita, Kansas. Her poems have been published in several print and online publications, including Poetry Magazine, Cutbank, The Laurel Review, and River City Poetry. Recently she provided cover art for Albert Goldbarth's Between Waking and Sleeping, published by Lost Horse Press.
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Tim McDonough
8/22/2020 04:50:15 pm
All those disparate elements coming together in a Onederful fusion of time and space. Thanks, Skyler Leave a Reply. |
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