Asunder

An angry wind moved
and tore down the house
and barn

It uprooted the corn
and snapped the trees
like twigs

Scattering the chickens
like salt on green beans
it moved onward ...

The barking dog
crouched beneath the
shadow of change...
Its bark becoming inaudible

taken up in
a deafening roar...

The decree was written in haste
signed with anger

There would be nothing left to take
after the bulldozers came...

Only the cowering dog
was spared

Whisked away
in the back of a pick-up truck

that sped away
in a cloud of dust

Into the vanishing point
.