kyle snyder

USaway

America is just a patchwork quilt
with its green seams grinding steady
same sum of old wheat geometry
and spit-in-bucket bourbon-barrel.
what whinnies down there
through the cerulean ceiling?
what crows in the morning
of the cotton mountain dream?
I think I see the country's floor coming,
so let the loose breath wash over me.

Kyle Snyder is a technical writer living in Cleveland, Ohio with two gray cats. He studied English, Creative Writing, and Teaching English as a Foreign Language at Kent State University. His poetry has been featured in The Bastard's Review, and will be published in an upcoming issue of The Westchester Review.