Blank Beauty

Cutting wind and brown hills
Telephone lines rolling beside
black asphalt strip
Naked branches starkly lined
in shadows of faded sunlight
Dull plastic, discarded, rattles over
frozen clumped dirt
Crumpled cans clank across
dotted yellow line
roll to rest in
stiff white grass
Brown paper bag flutters beside
black asphalt strip
torn edges wave and twist
brief spasms before long pauses
a winter butterfly