Soft, the West Wind
Blowing with visions
Of the continent
Beyond the Hudson River
Jersey to the Delaware Water Gap
The Midwest corn fields
360 flat horizens
The Mississippi
Corn giving way to cattle
The Missouri
High prarie rising from the Midwest
Sighting of the Rockies
Desert
Nevada
More desert
The Sierras
Oh California
The Pacific.
Stretching west to Asia.
I can see it all
All America
Standing on the Hudson River
The tide slipping to the sea
Holding you in my arms
Your boyish body
Your woman’s mind
Tender
Our embrace
I crave us naked
I don’t want California
All I want is you.