The Feast
Virginia Salter

Table spread before us
a patchwork banquet
grape vines, apple orchards,
berry fields, sorghum and corn.
Windmill sentries stand guard
as cirrus collect moisture
hovering as angels
ready with promise.

Intermittent fields at fallow
add rich, brown soil squares
among verdant cherry orchards,
along side prime-rib on the hoof,
grazing at leisure.
Cerulean pools and lakes
mirror the heavens.
Equine creatures glisten
as sunlight dances each
inch of flexing power
as they begin the feast.

© June 24,  2000