Moonstruck rust, enchanted rust <br />Gathering substance, <br />Spiraling up, descending crescendos <br />Spidering spells across ground <br />Boundaries <br />Of air, rock, hills, backroad towns... <br />Backbone ridges in <br />Time-tinted tin... <br />Sheds, webs of buckets, plows, <br />Wagon wheels... <br />Shreds, straps of harnesses <br />From upon-a-time mules <br />Dusting through rows flattened by <br />Sunstruck rust, twilight rust... <br />Passed by ritual busses, S.U.V.'s, <br />Cell phones speaking of hotels, <br />Scenery in Chattanooga. <br />Turkeys cock an eye toward <br />Medicine robes secluding <br />Four-house towns, <br />Descending invisibility on <br />Kitchens of corn bread, <br />Gravy, pork chops.<br /><br />elysabeth faslund<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/appalachian-sunset/
