Omaha

Red barns and red heifers spot the green

grass circles around Omaha -- the farmers

haul tanks of cream and wagon loads of cheese.

Shale hogbacks across the river at Council

Bluffs -- and shanties hang by an eyelash to

the hill slants back around Omaha.

A span of steel ties up the kin of Iowa and

Nebraska across the yellow, big-hoofed Missouri River.

Omaha, the roughneck, feeds armies,

Eats and swears from a dirty face.

Omaha works to get the world a breakfast.