Harder Times
a
gray-and-white photograph
of
woods that were gray and white
in
an olden November
dark
gray of tree shadow and
two
men in dark not smiling
not
having to squint too hard
one
with a rifle in hand
a
wried dead buck on the ground
the
other with a mustache
a
gray-and-white November
in
the quiet of drought time
dark-gray
November of want
- Rodney Nelson 2015
Rodney Nelson worked as a copy editor in the Southwest and now lives in the northern Great Plains. He recently published a chapbook.
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