Confluence
 

Behind:

land, flat for hundreds of miles,
rises slowly into mountains
above the sun

 
 
  To each side:
Above:
Both:
prairie
sky
retreat endlessly

 
 
  Horizon: a ragged vee of Canada geese
southward bound
freely crosses the world's
longest unprotected border
 
 
  Beyond: land and sky
fuse: a russet meridian
 
   
  Stephen Stamp  
   
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