PRAIRIE YELLOW

Prairie Yellow Prairie Land stretches beyond the horizon, horizon becomes immensity, and the Lakota Sioux who once lived here are ghosts in cloud shadows and mystery. Is it only my dreaminess that creates these luminous apparitions? The Indians of today drive pickups and work herds of cattle . The prairie’s endlessness clarifies into long fields that glow yellow against the darkened buttes. Sunflowers on the prairie. Long, long yellow rows, bowing to the sky. Continue reading PRAIRIE YELLOW

My Antonia, O Pioneers

Makes me think of Willa Cather, O Pioneers, My Antonia… From My Antonia: There was nothing but land: not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made. No, there was nothing but land-slightly undulating, I knew, because often our wheels ground against the brake as we went down into a hollow and lurched up again on the other side. I had the feeling that the world was left behind, that we had got over the edge of it, and were outside man’s jurisdiction. I had never before looked up at the sky when there was … Continue reading My Antonia, O Pioneers