Driving Through Michigan: Lansing to Saugatuck, MI
Sunday, May 23rd, 1993 I pass
big barns.
In block letters
I read
“1906,” “Troost,” “Schultz,” “1868.”
Big barns
standing strong on stone foundations;
big barns
bold in their red coats,
armed with bayonettes of lightning rods.
Driving through Michigan
I pass
houses hiding
in weeping willow and bowers of blooms.
Published in the Winter 1994 Penn Review, under the name Judith Newton (ne’e Bush) Vol 29 #1 along with my photo on the cover: Out of Our Element: Beached
