Music of High Northern Plains
The high Northern Plains
the Jagged and white silver
mountain flutes. The song
in the reeds a symphany.
Wind, flutters, thunder.
Birds wing and the breadth
of Swans lungs are a harp
with strings of lightning.
A storm from the Big Horns
Closes in, then rises upward
through feathered scales
of insturmental winds.
The heavy blue wing,
musculature music in
silver keys, flapping
closed-then opening
in a delicate flashing.
As fingered memories,
return, passing through
the appetures of thunder,
sounding out steely blues.
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