Eminent Domain
Look obscene.
Look crude and raw.
Look scars the countryside.
Third finger raised,
obscenities rain inside the car
on invading muscled white men
in large earth movers.
They work six days a week,
try to beat winter, lose.
We travel north on River Road,
pass a slashed farm
missing a six highway swath
of cow pasture,
turn left on Martic Road,
two lanes slow to one again,
more orange roadside signs
for the pipeline assault us.
The country road criss crosses
two more Amish farms
subdivided by construction,
corn fields, hayfields,
woods gouged out,
the land blinded
as the gas line marches east
confiscating land
in Pennsylvania.
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Date Published: 2/9/18