The Pickwicker, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1939 Page: 3
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Prairie Prescience
(Written during a West Texas sand storm.)
The trees flee
till
in anguished plea, they bend,
all but tripping over scraggly scrubs-
the scraggly scrubs-
orphans of expanse
of grey-brown sky and land
and howling, scowling sand-
the scraggly scrubs-
more sinned against
than leafless limbs-
As hardy in their struggling plight
to escape the leathered roots
that hold them down,
as prairie men
who fight the elements
to save a straggling heifer-
As hopeless, still,
as will of prairie wife to shut away
the dirge of sound
whipped over mound
on grey-brown day.
The prairie torn
by mourn of wind
will stay the same,
will lie again
beneath tomorrow's sun.
Tomorrow's sun ?
"It will come."
That is the song of the prairie man
as he drives in the last straggler
of his band.
It is the song in the hut
with the windows shut.
It is the song the scraggly scrubs
do not know
as they flail the air and
try to go,
and their hardy roots offend.'3-
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Abilene Christian College. The Pickwicker, Volume 7, Number 1, Spring 1939, periodical, Spring 1939; Abilene, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth335146/m1/5/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Abilene Christian University Library.