Barbed-Wire Utopia

 

Abundant grass pastoral bliss

Hills and arroyos

Of cow-price scowls

Beyond their ken

Herd grazes reverie

Pond and hay mollified

 

Bicker, sling snot and push

For turns at salt and mineral block

While even forked-branch

Fence stretchers fatten

 

For foam tray

And clear-plastic

Heaven

 

Of beef futures

 

From Poems of the New Old West

Copyright 2002, Jack Purcell