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Date Posted: 06:43:05 01/04/02 Fri
Author: Sheryl McCurdy
Subject: ONCE UPON A PRAIRIE

Hair thin, wheat bleached

Standing tall under the Nebraska sun

Ramrod tall she was all bone

And sinew strong

Made for holding toddlers in

Check and pinning clothes

On lines between gnarled trees

Hoeing gardens and hauling water

From the creek a mile away

The sun is so thirsty in Nebraska

She scowled at the haze

Rising each day to scorch

Hopes for dewy mornings into submission

One day she cooked breakfast for the children, her man

Washed dishes and pulled her sheaf of hair

From under a brimmed hat

Walked outside and dove into the long grasses

Wave after delicious wave in the wind

She swam

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