Oklahoma spirit exhales harshness of depression's nightmare on dreams
looks at fertile family farmland buried under layers of sand and silt,
holding bank's foreclosure notice on property homesteaded by great grandparents.
Feeling in agony knowing children will never inherit what was their birthright,
middle age bones aching from onset of arthritis, chest hurts from pains of heart disease,
but pushing aside the harbingers of same fate that killed father at fifty five,
clinging to defiant warrior essence learned from model of parent's heart.
Visions of California from post cards fill the head as tomorrow's destination
with idea of giving up and swallowing pride suffocates hope more than any dust storm.
Bronze trophy winner
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