Worthwhile

My wife wonders
what it is that brings
someone to here,

where

grasshoppers rise
like dust clouds
around the ankles
of a steer calf
stamping

to now, when

these Oklahoma hills
hardly nip at the heels
of Montana mountain
views he’d grown
so used to

to what, as in

“What do you even do
out here?” and all
I can say is “Live
in the country”

and hope

that’s worth as much
as I think it is