We Have Been Through Times

Abandoned Farm in Dublin, Ohio

For Magpie Tales, September 4, 2011. Go visit  Mag 81

"The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread." - Anatole France

Anatole France (16 April 1844 – 12 October 1924), born François-Anatole Thibault, was a French poet, journalist, and novelist. He was born in Paris, and died in Saint-Cyr-sur-Loire. He was a successful novelist, with several best-sellers. Ironic and skeptical, he was considered in his day the ideal French man of letters. He was a member of the Académie française, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in recognition of his brilliant literary achievements, characterized as they are by a nobility of style, a profound human sympathy, grace, and a true Gallic temperament.

We Have Been Through Times

The swollen dusty

cloud left us behind the dunes

right where we landed

quite some time ago

now, not as if we wanted

to be here but look,

buried clear up to

both axles just like wagons

in the dusty bowl,

in the world's middle

ground and drier than deserts,

damned decades of drought.

Written September 5, 2011   7:38 AM