oh kansas

my breath

slow and lazy like honey

i needed you so

you with that smoke brush

beautiful! airy clean

you are a perpetual dream

within a dream

that tree!

my favorite place to be

so strange

it seems to me that tree chose me

it finds me

i have talked

and cried

and smiled

and sighed

and all the while that tree

still chooses me

oh kansas

thank you for being that

soft breathable place

with an undeniably kind face

and thanks for the big hug back

i love you so

i love you more today

than yesterday's know