Look for winter settling in to the steel, wood, and grass of the farm; as it curls around the gate to the land, where the cattle stand with the ice of the night painting their bodies white and the farmer must open the frozen gate, to break the icy surface of the water trough, for the animals thirst.
The gate post stands through heat, and sun, the water of the spring, and drys through the Oklahoma summer, but colder than cold, it stands with ice wrapped around it, inside it, holding its own in the weather.
Ralph Peck
Photography
Sherri Stamps Davidson
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