Grasses

Stepping foot

on a field that has gone to grass

untilled, unseeded

given back to it's past

It will be only a year or two

till the field can no longer be a field

till the grass lays down roots too dense

and the seeds of Quaking Aspen

take hold and throw up a sapling

too thick for the tiller's blades

If the farmer cared

he could fix the fences

and let his cattle pasture there

it's not quite too late

for grazing to cut back the grass

and a hatchet or ax

to take the sapling down

But, the farmer does not care

there will be no fence

no ax, no rumbling tractor

there will be no care

for this place that once was a field

and now is something different