FLY-OVER LOVE IN A FLY-OVER STATE

Sunflowers collide with dragonflies, mayflies, horseflies, and
everyday country flies
In the desperate fields of Iowa in summertime, after harvest time, a
rare crop of time
Moments before your face emerged from the soil, from the bedrock, the
Midwestern rock
Your eyes stung mine with a humid heat, thirsty for Grinnell showers,
just rain showers
Beads fattened with the wet of seasonal love, fast love, temporal
love, all-too-brief-love

Christine Stoddard is a 2007 graduate of Yorktown High School in Arlington, VA and a rising freshman at Grinnell College on a full-tuition scholarship. She is currently a paid intern at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, as well as the fashion intern for WASHINGTON LIFE MAGAZINE. Her passions are art and writing, and she has been published both in print and online. To view some of her work, please visit Web Site, or join her fan clubs on Facebook (The Christine Stoddard Fan Club) and MySpace www.myspace.com/christinestoddard.

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