Wheat Field With Crows, by Richard Meyer

Wheat Field With Crows, by Vincent Van Gogh (Netherlands) 1890.

Wheat Field With Crows

a field of yellow grief
pressed by an iron sky--
pain applied impasto

roads wind from nowhere
to nothing—snipped short,
blunt and abrupt, like cut rope

and the crows coming in--
dark hinges dropping low
over the troubled grain

sinister wedges, black Vs
scribbled beyond the horizon,
stuttering to say your name

and their rusty voices
striking like clods of dirt--
mocking van caw, van caw

No sunflowers flourish here.

Richard Meyer

This poem appeared in Richard Meyer's book, Orbital Paths (Science Thrillers Media, 2015.)

Richard Meyer, recipient of the 2012 Robert Frost Farm Prize, lives in Mankato, MN. His book Orbital Paths was a silver medalist winner in the 2016 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards.