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Saturday, March 08, 2008

GREEN LEAVES, GRAIN AND MONSANTO

by Anna-Elise Price


Pulling out of my driveway
I run into a wall of corn
dense, green and aggressive
so different from the long low field
there only a month ago
it's almost enough to make me feel hemmed in
under this endless Illinois sky
this flat land of highways
where everything around you
goes whizzing by at 70 miles an hour
even the spring
that has moved on to
summer's full heat
following nature's rhythm but-
when did nature start growing
in rectangles and walls?


Having proved her liberal credentials by serving three years as a public defender for juveniles, and then a further three at legal aid doing education law, Anna-Elise Price is now studying writing at Eastern Illinois University.
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