Emerald-green spring wheat
in Tuscany unrolls its carpetup to a hilltop and blue sky.
Up there to the right
gather cypress trees in a
clump like conferring monks.
Across the top of the hill,
two electrical lines sag
between two cruciform polls.
A photographer has snapped
this image with a legendary
Hasselblad. The scene ordered
him to do so. Then, a guest
late to dinner, he rushed off
and forgot the lens-cap. In
the morning he returns. The
hill doesn't look the same. Of
course not. He smiles. He
scans the green grass,
searching for the cap. He
finds it, glances back up
at the cypresses, which
gossip about him. A bird
lands on one of the wires.
hans ostrom 2024
