In the field
In the field
that rolls from my feet
to the far horizon
valley of turned soil
already green
the tractor creeps
giant beetle
crop spraying
but
beneath this plum tree
wild yellow tulips
blow.
Jane Dougherty is Irish and lives in southwest France. She writes novels, stories and poetry and has been published in journals and magazines including Ogham Stone, Hedgerow, Visual Verse, Eye to the Telescope and Lucent Dreaming. She blogs at https://janedougherty.wordpress.com/