The empty barn.
The quiet crows.
In the shed, the spiders sleep.
Oak leaves stand still.
A drop of water is balanced
on the end of a blade of grass.
A cloud is stuck.
In the distance
a door swings
without a sound.
Philip Venzke grew up on a dairy farm near Colby, Wisconsin (where Colby cheese was invented). His most recent poems have appeared in Verse Wisconsin, Echoes, The Wisconsin Poets Calendar, Sheepshead Review, Illumen, Thunderclap! Magazine, and Right Hand Pointing.
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