♦ Poetic Sketches M to R ♦

Prairie Formation

[E] A sculpture on the campus of Kansas University.

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Prairie Formation

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A key sits atop the abstraction,
bronze in a circle of mulch.
Below, a hole marks where a critter
makes its home.

By the shores of the chancellery,
It looks upon Fraser with its flags,
The Watkins-Miller twins,
New Blake, Twente and Watson.

Here the lonely farmer breaks up sod,
Where catalpa, maple, redbud, pine
Have seen him washed by thunderstorms,

The Prairie Formation
commemorates in bronze,
the passing of the grasslands,
Once green, then brown, once white, then burnt,
now green once more.


Kåre Enga © 2005

Catalogue number: [162.178]
6 juni 2005