From the collection Condensed Matter and Other States of Mind by Douglas A. Fowler, Georgetown, KY: Finishing Line Press, 2005.

In Western Ohio
by Douglas A. Fowler

Summer sundown
green oak islands rise
in the purple orange humidity
of wide cultivated fields.

In the loam between the corn rows
I threw green-white watermelon rinds
and took too much for granted
their red-hearted watery sugar.

I want to push my foot arch
up against your heel, press my nose
over your shoulder, inhale your hair,
and slide my palm over the round
hip cotton of your girlish underwear.

We hear the water-heater percolate.
The furnace flame behind its glass plate
glows blue on the hallway floor.
The cat perambulates the house,
like others hunting in the barns
along Four Mile Creek where
the corn leaves rattle like sabres
in the moon’s liquid wind.

In Western Ohio was suggested and inspired by Richard Brautigan’s In Watermelon Sugar, New York: Dell Publishing, 1974

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