Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

 may have been during the spring rains. White-shouldered bobolink sits on wire and sings. His main desire seems to be to sing, no matter how. Field here beautiful with great clumps of sheep-sorrel and patches of pinking clover.Country school house. Beauty of locusts. Farmhouse. Blue-bird sings.Rising breeze from the southeast. What is the cool odor it brings  Perhaps a compound of the sun, the sky, locusts, freshly tilled ground and wheat bloom. I stand under oak. It blows hard and cool and sounds fine in the branches. Bluebird flies down to ground to devour worm