Forgotten Ground Regained
Skyline Herds
On the high mesa · where mustangs posed,new presences · playing, feeding:Lipizzaners, · long-backed and elegant,rearing whitely, · radiant hooved,princely bodies · pawing in unisonas if sky were soil · and snow coveredtheir airy fodder, · Aeolian hay.Fruitful their scraping · for such herds nowmount the skylines · of many a range,proliferant, pale, · looming and grand,Wayland’s remudas · windily pastured.
Copyright © Donald Mace Williams, 2008
Originally published in JASAT (Nov., 2008); also Sept. 26, 2014, in the San Antonio Express-News
Reprinted in Forgotten Ground Regained: A Journal of Alliterative Verse, New Series, Issue 2, Spring, 2024
Answer: wind farms