Standing by a Field of Virgin Prairie. Coming from New York City and it's environs to an Iowa farm as I did, I had to get used to the subtleties of life on the prairie. There were no big mountains or dense forests here. There were grasses and wildflowers and sky. It led to a different awareness of myself, my neighbors and the world we live in, an awareness that I am very grateful at least in some small way to have earned.
All farmers know all grass is flesh of some kind and all flesh is grass, eventually.
Poems, Prose and Dramatic Scenes from the Natural and Oral History of Southwest Iowa published by Mid-Prairie Books. For Voices from the Prairie and Humanities Iowa, this is Michael Carey hoping you continue to hear the music blooming all around you. Biography Michael Carey farms outside Farragut, Iowa with his wife Kelly and their four children Helen, Maeve, Andrew and Fionnuala. His work has been widely published in literary magazines across the United States, Great Britain and Ireland. He and his work have been featured recently in the Wall Street Journal , Time , The Associated Press , World Monitor Today , The Des Moines Register , Read , Country America , Successful Farmer , Iowa Farmer Today and Iowa Public Television's Touchstone and Take One programs.