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Iowa Barn
By Annie Finch


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Iowa Barn

Light and shadow
frame a window
that comes reaching
past a roof-edge
and becomes a hole.  Sky goes
funneling to
any darkness,
cut by warped
wooden framing,
long-abandoned
by the glass that
could reflect us.

Locally: United States
New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, NY, RI, VT)
  Kent Falls, CT; Salisbury, CT;
Sterling Field, CT; Corn Hill Beach, MA; Boothbay Harbor, ME (2); Brooklyn, New York, NY; High Valley, NY (2); Tarrytown, NY
Mid Atlantic (DC, DE, MD, NJ, PA, VA, WV)
  Washington, DC;
Southeast (FL, GA, NC, SC)
Midwest (IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI)
  Detroit, MI;
Madeline Island, WI
South (AL, AR, KY, LA, MS, TN, TX)
  Mammoth Cave, KY;
Great Plains (IA, KS, MO, MT, ND, NE, SD, OK, WY)
  
Kalona, IA; Prairie City, IA; Red Haw Lake, IA; Waterloo, IA; Red Owl Mountain, MT
Southwest (AZ, CA, CO, NM, NV, UT)
  June Lake, CA; Los Angeles, CA;
Northwest (AK, ID, OR, WA)
  
Sylvia Ringstad Park, AK; Hood River, OR; Newport, OR; Seattle, WA (2); Skagit River, WA
Hawaii and US Territories
Globally
North America
Caribbean
  
Belmont, Trinidad
Central America
South America
  
El Chorro, Girón, Ecuador;
Europe
  Delphi, Greece;
Africa
  Ghana;
Middle East
  Sultanahmet, Istanbul, Turkey
Asia