Portrait of a dying Woody Guthrie in a changing New York

by sequin

Posted to Poetry on 2003-02-18 12:52:00


The dying thin man
swept his bones along the chord of G,
Lifeless contortions of the dust bowl refugee,
fretting through his memories;

California songs, Oklahoma winds, radical New York, Leadbelly and all that swings.

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