Poetry
The Wheel Brace
By
Both men spat red dirt—the tractors' engines echoing off cypress
windbreaks smudged silver with heat; gears, shafts and star-wheels
turning circled motion into windrows. Dust steamed off the grass,
the earth alive with lizards and field mice darting beneath kestrels

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CREDITS
Cover banner: "wheel" by Nica Davidov
Topical poem image: "2012 Republican Presidential Candidates" by "DonkeyHotey"