the full rage of kansas turns loose upon us. On the mexican radio station they are singing Espiritu de mis sueños and that is exactly it tonight. The spirit of my dreams rises in the storm like vapor. Deep clouds bulge together and below them we are a tiny constellation of lights the car laid under
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poet
Harley Elliott
Harley Elliott is the author of Fugitive Histories (Woodley Memorial Press, 2011), Loading the Stone (Woodley Memorial Press, 2006), and The Monkey of Mulberry Pass (Woodley Memorial Press, 1991), among others. He lives in Kansas.
by this poet
poem
1975