Landscape, Sullivan County Farm, by Ben Weakley

Landscape, Sullivan County Farm, photograph by Ben Weakley (USA) 2017.

Landscape, Sullivan County Farm 

We are voyeurs in this winter pasture.
 
A Holstein studies the mowed slope.
She questions the bare-stripped trees
             for the meaning of their loss.
 
Who here can say that god is in all things?
That god is the conversation between all things?
 
For example, the hush and crackle
                            of wind against dry leaves,
or the hiss and spit of damp logs
                            kindling fire in the night air.
 
Who here can say god isn’t?

Ben Weakley

Ben Weakley lives in Tennessee with his wife and children. He writes poetry and enjoys hiking in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. ​