the little gravel turn-around cross way thingies in between the sides of long rural highway
old white farmhouse paint with the flecks chipped off (you know the look)
that one random mint-aqua house by the creek
solar panels in the sideyard
wheat swaying in the breeze while the sun’s overhead
an old bike leaning up against the bottom trellis part of an old farmhouse porch, next to the steps
grain silos out back of the house
rusty brown farm windmills
fences made of those wooden sticks jammed in the ground, with the chicken-wire metal netting nailed up between alongside the road
well water pumps, and the farm’s one (1) propane tank that’s usually uncomfortably near the house (why would you do that)
i n f i n i t e cargo trains on the train tracks, going 15 mph
gnarly, twisted trees along the side of the river
sun shining off the long, flat stretches of open highway with maybe. three cars on them as far as you can see
the stubs of cut hayfields glowing when the sun breaks through a little hole in the clouds on a dark cloudy day
the look and smell of rich loam dirt
all the leaves accumulating in one spot and making a carpet two feet deep
gravel mountains at the closed-down stone place
~ suddenly, a quarry!!! ~ (where the hell did THAT come from??)
not only is the river totally frozen over, but there are huge-ass chunks of ice all over the surface of the ice-frozen river. double ice. (where did they come from??)
abandoned old trailer home just sitting at the junction of the river and the highway, rusting and falling apart
the way you can always recognize river bluffs
that one mini-pony with its mini barn at the farm with all the cows
the tractor just rolling along the highway, slow as you like, even at the places where there’s twenty feet wide of grass on the side of the road that it could drive on
that one white birch in like, a twenty mile radius
hay rolls plunked down everywhere
fog laying across the tops of the cornfields at 5 a.m. before the sun rises and lights it on fire till it burns away
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