Giants in My Backyard
 
In my backyard over the fields,
wind turbines like seagull's wings,
spinning in the setting mist,
jutting from the naked snowscape.

I wonder at their supple curving lines,
listening in awe at their distant rattling hum.
Stunning simplicity refashioned for our day.
Remind me of simpler times.

Giants of the country, inspiring dreams
as night approaches. How we have longed
for life there once more, and as sleep
gently takes me, I tilt my own twisting giants.
 
-T. Gene Davis