Corduroy cornrows
Velvet waving wheat
Tattered cotton hay bales
Muslin dew come morning
Well worn bristly
Straw wool bales
The simple plaid of ploughed fields
Desert khaki of soy
Waiting for harvest
Soft green felt of winter wheat
Rough field fatigues
Jumbled patchwork of
The dormant,
The combined,
The derelict,
Fields and pastures
All sewn together
Haphazard seams of fence row stitching
Under the faded blue denim of an autumn sky
White cloud patches
Leading to a darkening horizon
The so white cotton blanket
waiting to be spread
over the sleeping fields.
A comforter for the winter chill.