NAPOWRIMO #21: BEFORE THE FALL, SCENE 1

For 2011's National Poetry Writing Month (NaPoWriMo), Troy's Work Table is attempting to write thirty poems in thirty days without the help of writing prompts from other websites.

Many of these are still in some sort of draft stage, but that is the nature of the Work Table.

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BEFORE THE FALL, SCENE 1

The scent of sweetgrass
the songbook of small birds
the soil that has yet to be lifted
by the Dust Bowl and carried away

Mother has died and Father has died
and Stepmother has died
the siblings have moved to their own homes
and he celebrates his eleventh

birthday alone on the farm
standing in the Oklahoma sunshine
with a freshly hunted possum in one hand
and his rifle in the other

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