Crop Formations



A line of fire across a field,
She makes her mark
In the empty hour of nighttime's yield
When the screen of the sky plays a lighter dark--
I wait calmly in my room and ignore the snapping, hissing
Boom of orange flame
Eating its way to me, burning her name like a crop formation--alien,
Druid, or prank--in the purple interstice, rank
With smoke and heat
Before the sun's first hollow beat,
Beat pause beat upon the earth.
I wait for everything I'm worth.
I wait.
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Submitted on May 01, 2011

Modified on April 01, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme ABABCDEFGGHHI
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 451
Words 86
Stanzas 1
Stanza Lengths 13

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