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Tuesday, May 28, 2013

THE GROWING DROUGHT

by William Cullen, Jr.


Image credit: kamchatka / 123RF Stock Photo


Pickup trucks filled with migrants
disappear into the mirage
down the long road
looking for farms
not yet turned to dust.
They say the distant backfires
are really thunder.

 
William Cullen, Jr. is a veteran and works at a non-profit in Brooklyn, NY. His poetry has appeared in Farming Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Gulf Stream, Home Planet News, Pirene's Fountain, Right Hand Pointing, Spillway, Willows Wept Review and Written River.