William Walters - Foliate Oak Literary Magazine
What Was Whispered In The West

by William Walters

Who will remember
Where we were
When tomorrow’s wind
Whistles and howls--
Whisks us miles from memories,
Wheatfields, rangelands, home?
Why, we’ll be tumbleweeds
Which roll on away
While our roots remain here,
Whether hearts wander or stay.
Wm. Walters grew up near Liberal, Kansas (How's that for an oxymoronic placename?) and now lives near Rockford, Illinois, where he's been a professor of English and linguistics at Rock Valley College for the past twenty-five years. He has published poems in Chiron Review and other literary magazines in the US and the UK.