Cairo, Ohio, is corn and beans,
a stone's throw from Columbus Grove
and just up the road from Delphos.
It is ivy, trains and weather-worn bricks.
It is ivy, trains and weather-worn bricks.
When fields are pocks of stubble and ice,
a man has time to dream
of a fertile delta--a place to warm his face
and busy his idle hands. A woman
imagines ironweed swelling with color
so dense that petals fall
onto her palm as bits of amethyst.
imagines ironweed swelling with color
so dense that petals fall
onto her palm as bits of amethyst.
Ironweed
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