William Carlos Williams
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
beside the white
chickens
Gone
nothing much depends
on a red wheelbarrow
fallen to rust in
the dust blown field
one thousand acres
of unsown wheat
abandoned barn
home to none but
the dry rattle of barn swallows
and the ghosts of American Gothic.
(Image: Steve Fitch, Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, University of New Mexico Press, 2003)
