Tag: dustbowl

Landscape by Patrick JenningsJul 11, 20169:55 pm

Dustbowl Jalopy, Between Adrian and Vega, Texas, United States of America

The Mother Road

01:39 Windmill RV Park; McLean, Texas :: 17 SEP 97

John Steinbeck devoted a full chapter of his epic roadtrip, The Grapes of Wrath, to Route 66. Five words of that chapter — three words, really — captured everyone’s imagination. Three words.

The Mother Road

“66 is the mother road,” wrote Steinbeck. Poetry. Evocation.

Poetry by Patrick JenningsSep 1, 20158:00 am

Drought

I watched the white paint shrivel and dry
On the old shed out back

I watched it pucker and peel
In successive seasons
Of wet, then cold, then wet again, then heat
Since decades past

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