Thursday, November 14, 2019

day ONE THOUSAND and TWENTY NINE


the dust bowl again

railroad whistles whine
communist conductors
pray in train songs

these old wood houses
offer little shelter from wind
as the prairie howls, listen
you’ll realize it’s the ghost of the buffalo

this was the bottom
of the ocean
before it was
prairie, it will
never be prairie again

the desert waits
humans drink
the water table dry

the desert dreams
people are ghosts
this is the dust bowl again

--Jason Baldinger

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