Open Range

Photograph taken from the highway between

Denver City, Tx and Plains, Tx 2005

wide–eyed land

stretching, reaching

as far as the eye can see

homesteads corralled by trees

bunch up the landscape

wild grasses and mesquite grow among great clods

open range worried 

only by bush and cattle,

made fluid by wind in the grass.

"There is an eternal landscape, a geography of the soul;

we search for it's outline all our lives."

~ Josephine Hart