Follow the Blackbirds by Gwen Nell Westerman

Author:Gwen Nell Westerman [Westerman, Gwen Nell]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781609173845
Publisher: Michigan State University Press

No Contest

On a dusty Sunday afternoon,

from my chair behind the drum,

I watch for a treasured smile

among the grass dancers.

Singers warm up a contest song,

and as the push-up sounds,

in a brilliant multicolored blaze,

they dance across the sun.

Swirling white and green and yellow,

like wind through summer prairies,

He dips and whirls along a path

set down to old-time rhythms.

Deliberate steps in measured time,

he moves among the men,

while judges watch with seasoned eyes

and score them on their style.

The last down beat will bring their

movements to an end, stopping

ribbons, roaches, beaded cuffs,

while heartbeats race ahead.

And on a dusty Sunday afternoon,

the contest ends the same.

Sweetheart, let me take you home

in my one-eyed Ford, again.

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