Beet Harvest
On a windless day
gray sooty smoke
rises high above
red brick stack
Black coal greedily
devoured
by insatiable
furnace
boils water
sliced beets
marinate
Strips away
sweet molasses and
sugar
into bottles and
bags
beet pulp and ash
remain
19-326y
#highplainspoet,
#westernnebraskathoughtandlife, sugar, beets, western nebraska
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