Welcome to Limestone9.com -- Personal website of Greg German his Kansas farm & rural themed poetry, essays, outdoor, farm and other photography... plus, a special section dedicated to Dominica,  Caribbean, West Indies.

   
Dominica, Caribbean, West Indies... featuring a  special section dedicated to the island's life!

 


  
Kansas farm & rural themed poetry by Greg German.
Plus, a sampling of personal essays, farm & other photography...
  



Life, Writing & Photography

...a Collection of Personal Discoveries
Created & Developed by Greg German
Copyright © by Greg German, 2008
 

...hearing only ourselves, we imagine the sound of trees stretching and buds

splitting. It's late.  Our mothers will worry.  But we decide

we are men and are never going home, again.


 

Poetry
Last Day of Harvest
 ...and other poems
 

Essays
Far Away Places
 ...and other journeys
  
Photography
Places, People & Things
 ...and other images
 

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 Limestone9
...a Brief History
 ...before I ask, Limestone tells me
he's had a vision.  "Jesus," I swear. "No,"
he replies.  "God.
And
She's a woman."

 
 

 

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Dominica, Caribbean WI - Looking north towards Portsmouth
  

Dominica, Caribbean, WI  Images & Narrative 
     

Dominica, Caribbean, W.I.
    

   

     A Farmer's Son, Age 11,    

     Plows 6 Acres      4 p.m.
    

Blunt as horse's breath,

heat, boiler room hot

laced with diesel smoke,

wraps off the tractor's engine

and hones the child

from his face.  Dust,

settled onto his bare back,

is squeezed into his shoulders

by a fat-bellied sun.  Tasteless

now, the water warm, his jug

half empty, everything

is against him; rain clouds

are nowhere.  The land evolves

into a battlefield, the plow

a dictator.  Each shrunken

round becomes larger

than the last; each minute

is an hour.  Red-tail hawks, kites

suspended in the wind, rotate

across a prairie-sized sky.

Introduced to endless,

the farmer's son is angry,

sacrificed by his father,

taken by the land.

 

        
     More Summer Themed Poems

    Harvest Themed Poems

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