Mountain Eyes by: Heather Poppen, Oil, 2018
A single star on red white blue
The rat-tat-tat of a ghost town
Water’s fall outside Capital’s door
A silent remembrance at the Alamo
Black incense of railroads
A cavern’s cries for friends
Green caps in a national forest
The greeting of bayous
Clattering of a rattlesnake
Rumbles of a cattle herd
A longhorn’s sword
Pattering of a fleeing armadillo
Floods and droughts of a tired earth
The breath of clouds
An enemy of snow
Mist raining from a crop duster
Rio Grande’s winding body
Sculptures of rolling plains
A choir of Bluebonnets
The force of Texas, The Lone Star State