Wednesday Photo And A Poem By J.V. Cunningham

If you like the photo, click here.  More on the poet and poem and the link below.  Not too cheery, but looking for place in the American West.
MT-3 Storm Breaking-3
Montana Pastoral
I am no shepherd of a child’s surmises.
I have seen fear where the coiled serpent rises,

Thirst where the grasses burn in early May
And thistle, mustard and the wild oat stay.

There is dust in this air. I saw in the heat
Grasshoppers busy in the threshing wheat.

So to this hour. Through the warm dusk I drove
To blizzards sifting on the hissing stove,

And found no images of pastoral will,
But fear, thirst, hunger, and this huddled chill.