1917 · Paul Marble Wood
Worked around the
house in the morning
came to the ranch
in the afternoon
got the cows and
milked found west
fence down in one
place stormed
in evening
2001 · Lisa Barnes King

Pinned in traffic on the way to gather boys, saw a man and woman fighting on the sidewalk. Two small children traced an erratic orbit just outside the heat of their anger. I could not think what to do. The car ahead of me, filled with hispanic men, honked in protest each time the man snatched at the woman.