Combine Harvester

Some slob tracked burning styrofoam across the dear sky’s parlor

and Airstream trailers run silver and mindless across 80

toward Nebraska like minnows down a drainpipe.

If all this, our stalled-on-the-shoulder, 

floorboard love,

amounts to more than heat-waves or jerky strips,

I’ll quit talking about the architecture of Quik Trips

and I’ll plan a moon pie in the median and when we return

next May to see its wet, alien stalks,

I’ll wonder at the days we’ve seen. Jesus, baby, the days that we have seen...

—Josh Bell

Combine Harvester is curated by Liz Rudnick. Opening reception Friday, September 25 during the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust Gallery Crawl.