Delineation by B.J. Buckley
Yellow highway stripe, the fence --
top taut-stretched wire --
horizon, and, invisible in the air,
unerring happenstance
of flight: hawk, projectile,
its whistling diagonal
towards line of furrow, line
of planted wheat (doomed lark), each fine
stalk a single uplift line towards sun
and its fire-fixed line across the heavens.
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B.J. Buckley is a Wyoming/Montana poet who has worked in Arts-in-Schools programs throughout the west for
over 30 years. Her poems have appeared widely in both
print and on-line journals. Her most recent book of poems,
with co-author Dawn Senior-Trask, is Moon Horses and
the Red Bull, from Pronghorn Press, Greybull, Wyoming.
top taut-stretched wire --
horizon, and, invisible in the air,
unerring happenstance
of flight: hawk, projectile,
its whistling diagonal
towards line of furrow, line
of planted wheat (doomed lark), each fine
stalk a single uplift line towards sun
and its fire-fixed line across the heavens.
________________________
B.J. Buckley is a Wyoming/Montana poet who has worked in Arts-in-Schools programs throughout the west for
over 30 years. Her poems have appeared widely in both
print and on-line journals. Her most recent book of poems,
with co-author Dawn Senior-Trask, is Moon Horses and
the Red Bull, from Pronghorn Press, Greybull, Wyoming.
