On the Hillside Poem, by dlherrmann, at My poetic side

Buffalo herd on the hillside

resting

in afternoon heat,

breathing boulders

scattered in the grass

and prairie flowers;

more than a hundred -

awesome sight

and reminder

of time when

great multitudes

of the giant beasts

owned the prairie

past horizon -

source of meat, bone tools,

tipi skins and more

For Kanza, Lakota

and others on the plains.

Author: dlherrmann ( Offline)
Published: October 20th, 2020 22:14
Comment from author about the poem: Originally published in Midwest Quarterly, collected in Family Plowing and other prairie poems, new and used.
Category: Nature
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On the Hillside