Analysis of Long Country Roads

Driving long country roads at the start of Spring
the dirt doesn’t billow and hover
coating everything and everyone like in heat of Summer,

Winter’s blanket removed – the fields are
greening – the earth is breathing;
the palpitating earth passes by as I drive and wipers beat a calming rhythm,

as nourishing rain gently falls
in the dampness of spring, the soil is receptive,
waiting to yield to the plow –
to give itself, to offer its bounty held dormant.