Chernozem poetry magazines in pastel colors with stick art covers
Title: Trackside, with Tumbleweed Body: Here the mind makes a garden: Clump of old-field grass, fan Of white heads, reflections in rainpool: Mind makes a flower-garden: gallant amaranth, Never-fading, slender, green-crested: Tall tumbleweed, blue-green Infinite leafage clear in rainpool: Infinite depths, mystic wonder. (Yet is this barren High Plains Trackside; long apron of concrete, Staggering row of paintless warehouses, Stark straight distance, nothing-horizon, Sand, and weeds.) Here the mind makes a garden and peace: Clear garden of dawn where light Haloes heads of old-field grass, Gallant amaranth, blue-green tumbleweed: Mystic depth of universe, trackside Barren, apron of concrete, no horizon: Here the mind makes a garden of infinite Knowing: the mind makes a garden. By Hargis Westerfield
Title: Parallel Trackage, Impartial Vision Body: Here the mind makes a garbage; These disorders of the foreground-- Waste in water, wanton weed-rows-- Shorten distance, narrow mind's room To a low and closed horizon. Thinking coarsens: what perspective opens To the might-be, if the near be wholly Careless vegetation, rot and spillage, broken stone? Broken-hearted, here in mind's waste, watch The dreamer trip upon his own distortion: in the overgrowth, the mellow of ditchside carrion Mealing upwards in the sun. By Nancy G. Westerfield
This includes Chernozem, a poetry magazine in the 1970s. Chernozem published local poets like Don Welch and Hargis and Nancy Westerfield as well as poets from elsewhere. Like many small publications, it was short-lived.
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