All Sky

It's all sky
             today,
                    like Oklahoma
                                   all sky!

                            Just sky blue
                                           sky
             all day.


All sky!
All day!
All day!
         Sky!


I look for you who can not come back.
I look for you who will not return.
Sometimes, my craned neck bends,
lengthened like an arm.

All sky!
All sky!
You could see even with ghost eyes.
It's all sky!
It's all sky!
Even the meanest eyes could see
All sky. Sky everywhere!


I speak as a man who once had a mother.
I speak as a man who once had a father.
I speak as a man who once had an uncle.
I speak as a man who once had a cousin.
I speak as a man who had  grandmothers and grandfathers.
                           who had dear friends.

All are gone.
I lay in a field of stubble and saw sky everywhere.
All sky!
All sky!
               Everywhere!
Sky everywhere!
Even the deadest eyes could see.
Sky!
Sky everywhere!

Stephen Williamson