Meanings of the Plains


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Dirt Road, eastern Colorado High Plains
: photo by DrunkDriver, 17 March 2009




A volleyball game with Sam's friends the plumbers
ride out to a farmhouse off E. 75th Street where the flat land begins
96° on June 21 at 9:00 pm
Heat lightning in the purple dusk & large dramatic pink cloud masses
the front range with the sun going down behind it
some kind of biting bugs no taller than a six-pack
dusty girls having trouble with their serves
coke makes an abandoned red gas pump get brighter
22 exciting volleyball games, co-educational
riding home through the buffalo grass
into the very short night



from A Short Guide to the High Plains, 1981






Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), Garryowen, Montana: photo by Matt Lavin 5 September 2007


Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), Hammond, Montana: photo by Matt Lavin 6 September 2007


Buffalo grass (Buchloe dactyloides), with pistillate inflorescences comprising spikelets fused into a burr and clusters with the leaf sheaths, Garryowen, Montana: photo by Matt Lavin 5 September 2007

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Colorado Front Range, with Mt. Evans on far right, as viewed from the Plains to the east
: photo by Adam Ginsburg, 31 December 2005

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