Kanza – People of The South Wind

Photo Credit: Paulo Borges
The wind howls
dirt eddies creating a haze,filling my eyes with grit
dead leaves circling in tiny tornadoes
plastic bags
a scourge on nature, plastered to fences
making otherworldly ghosts to dance in trees
I seek shelter from the keening, but solace never comes
for it is March in Kansas
and there is no peace to be found
not even in my own mind