Dust Bowl

Oklahoma 
	electric blue skies,
	sun and wild winds
	tragic black dirt clouds 
	sand sifting through cracks 
	dry stalks
	bones - only bones 
	California

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Richard Ferry

March 18, 2013 at 10:20 PM

Great write Myself, rather be at the Rose Bowl.............rick

Jack Jordan

March 19, 2013 at 8:54 AM

Or any other Bowl, from what I understand about the Great Plains in the 1930's. Jack

Andrea Dietrich

March 13, 2013 at 11:06 PM

oh, yes, this really makes me think of that great novel. I never read it. Steinbeck? But I saw the movie and it was great.

Jack Jordan

March 14, 2013 at 8:07 AM

Okay... I'll admit that I never read it either, which says a lot about my lousy undergraduate education as well as my lethargic adult life. J

Donna Jones

March 13, 2013 at 7:09 PM

This really got to me Jack...most of my family went thru this and yes , grapes of wrath style, went to CA. But back home now...great job.....Donna

Jack Jordan

March 13, 2013 at 9:51 PM

My family didn't make the CA trek, but certainly lived through hard times in Oklahoma and Texas. I'm not sure how I wound up back here. There must be some sort of weird magnetism - and very fine people too. Jack