New Poetry by Brooks Lindberg

Plowing

The fields stretch ahead.

The fields stretch behind.

If the mule dies,

you become the mule.

And whoever whipped

will whip harder.

They once yoked me with God

but we outgrew the yoke.

I plow alone now

but can turn my head

this way and that.

- © Brooks Lindberg 2023

Brooks Lindberg is a tax attorney living in Washington State in the Pacific Northwest. His poetry has appeared before in Blue Pepper and his poems often appear in The Blotter Magazine. Others appear in Tigershark Magazine, Squawk Back, Wild Violet, and elsewhere. You can find links to his works at brookslindberg.com.