patchwork

So many ungrounded ten thousand feet in the air

Corduroy patchwork

Rumbling below the black winged silver white bird

With 100 sets of eyes

Those eyes see sage green autumn alfalfa

Rusty brown stitched

With scriggles of river

Across taupy smooth irregular

Squares

The bigger the white bird grows

The smaller the patches on

The ground become under cumulous

Pillows of white cotton clouds

We divide and fence and divide

Again

What was once undividable,

Shared and whole, intact,

So many ungrounded ten thousand feet in the air