Grasshopper

Wide open spaces...a strong sense of place all through this long poem. You are flying over the grasses and fields of the prairies as you read, occasionally brought down into towns and homes and people's lives. A person who has left, disconnected from their hometown, an entire population disconnected from their ideals and from the land, alienated. Sometimes the writing veers a bit too far from the main ideas and becomes a little hard to follow, but it always loops back and in a way the veering adds to the rhythm of the poem, making it feel expansive/lost in a big world.