Polk County - Mike Stinson (Lincoln, Nebraska)
After supper
our family gathers in the yard space
between house and barn
to churn home made ice cream...
and though the old John Deere is out of sight
we can hear it's rhythmic chug
as it pumps artesian water
to a field of emerging corn...
and the wide Nebraska horizon
is lined with sunset orange
as I savor a scoop
of paradise