Omaha

Red barns and red heifers spot the green grass circles around Omaha--the farmers haul tanks of cream and wagon-loads of cheese. Shale hogbacks across the river at Council Bluffs--and shanties hang by an eyelash to the hill slants back around Omaha. A span of steel ties up the kin of Iowa and Nebraska across the yellow, big-hoofed Missouri River. Omaha, the roughneck, feeds armies, Eats and swears from a dirty face. Omaha works to get the world a breakfast.