Forrest Pasky Poet Free verse

The Infinite Sky Plain

I live on the edge of the infinite sky plain

dirt meets the horizon

dirt meets the sky

you can see all the way to the sky

with nothing blocking your view

that is how vast and open

this land is that I call the infinite sky plain

when the crop comes in

it is low to the ground

and you can still see

all the way to the sky

there is a plain white butterfly

that dances among the green and red

as you look across the crop

you see them at regular intervals

it is like they have each

staked out their own territory

but in a polite way

they are plain white

and the crop is simply green and red

but the dirt with these three simple colors

is pretty in the heat

of the central valley sunset

I used to be afraid

of such huge and open spaces

it was like there was too much space

for my eye to see all at once

but the plain white butterflies

gave me something

upon which my eye could focus

and the vast emptiness

of the all the open space around me

went away

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