the empty wind

there is no one home.
the lights are off.
no candles in the window.
no dog barking.
no car in the driveway.
she's gone.
you can see the tracks
of the truck
that took her and everything
away.
she's gone back to Kansas
you imagine.
that's where her heart
has always been, back to
the farm. the wheat,
the endless fields below
a flat blue sky.
the empty wind.