Issue 16
Wing
Patricia Wellingham-Jones
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Country Road at Dawn
I walk the country road
beside an irrigation ditch hidden
by fat gold cups of evening primrose,
the flat yellow faces of mullein.
At my footsteps
frogs plop into the water
like a well-trained chorus line.
In the mowed field beyond the ditch
a covey of quail races toward shelter,
the parents of five killdeer
who have flown pipe their distress.
Down the road chicory
thrusts blue petals against horse knees.
The rancher on his four-wheeler waves,
makes sure water runs where it should.
I hear my Nikes crunch on gravel,
watch birds flick wings, squirrels run up a tree,
wonder what else I disturb
in my quiet wander.
~Patricia Wellingham-Jones
Former psychology researcher, writer, editor, lecturer Patricia
Wellingham-Jones has most recently been published in Tiger's Eye, Möbius,
The Green Tricycle, Liberty Hill Poetry Review, San Gabriel Valley Poetry
Quarterly and Niederngasse. She won the Reuben Rose International
Poetry Prize (Israel) in 2003. Email.
© 2004 by Patricia Wellingham-Jones. All Rights Reserved.
© Copyright 2004 by Cayuse Press. All Rights Reserved.