David Walker Poet Free verse

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Life On the Edge of a Desert

Life on the Edge of a Desert
David J Walker

First of all
	It’s really a converted prairie 
Once a jungle of buffalo grass 

A thick jumble of forest for the 
smallest of all God’s creatures 

land captured and plowed asunder 
becoming The harvest 
of common principle
the subject of the annual  
King Cotton fall festival 

That is if God chooses to cleanse 
the agrarian sins 
And sends a Eucharist of rain to the
Forgiven farmers of bootlegged 
Aquifer moisture 

Last of all
	It is a land of open sky
	Endless sky
Left in the hands of the fearless
Subjects of the winds 
Where every new generation 
of true pioneers 
will live and die 
under the watchful eye 
Of a living and loving God

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