Cattails

Ten thousand
prairie thuribles
in the
breeze,

chained roots
unmoved
by hard
blows,

sticks of incense
burn
on the
wind’s breath,

seeds
like ashes,
ashes blown
to dust.

 

-John Fritzell
A graduate of Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA, John Fritzell is a Wisconsin-based poet whose work has appeared in Gray’s Sporting Journal, Canoe & Kayak Magazine and Red Eft Review among others.