The 2River View | 28.1 (Fall 2023) |
Tim Hunt
There was orchards and farms, Before the lake was drained That feat of engineering! And the farms dried up and most of the people moved on. That is the way of things, a momentary boom and most of the people moving on— a few, tumbleweeds snagged in a fence against the strands of barbed wire. The twisting dark receding down a vacancy left pick-axed and shoveled, and smelted into ingots— teeth, wealth. else. Here, the dark seam— away as if the ore and the men who worked the seam As if this silence had always been. | |
Tim Hunt is the author of, among others, Voice to Voice in the Dark (Broadstone Books) and Ticket Stubs & Liner Notes (winner of the 2018 Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award). Originally from northern California, he and his wife Susan live in Normal, Illinois. (website) | |
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