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Largest lead mine in the world surrounded by dead trees. Kellogg, Idaho: photo by Arthur Rothstein, July 1936
Broad black scar the valley is
and sunday is
where
........in the wide arc
..the small lights of homes come on
in that trough.
......Burnish my heart
......with this mark
Furnish my soul with the hope
Far away and by a river
In the darkness of a walnut stand.
There
........is
no home, no back.
All is this wrong key, the lark
sings
......but his voice trails off
in the snow. He has not
brought his meadow.
The starling's
..insolent whistle
is the truth here -- dark smoke
drifts in from the morning fertilizer factory
and men there return lamely
to work, their disputes not settled.
and sunday is
where
........in the wide arc
..the small lights of homes come on
in that trough.
......Burnish my heart
......with this mark
Furnish my soul with the hope
Far away and by a river
In the darkness of a walnut stand.
There
........is
no home, no back.
All is this wrong key, the lark
sings
......but his voice trails off
in the snow. He has not
brought his meadow.
The starling's
..insolent whistle
is the truth here -- dark smoke
drifts in from the morning fertilizer factory
and men there return lamely
to work, their disputes not settled.
Edward Dorn: Dark Ceiling, from Geography (1965)
Sugar beet factory (Amalgamated Sugar Company) along Snake River. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon, a one factory town: photo by Dorothea Lange, October 1939
Sugar beet factory along Snake River. Nyssa, Malheur County, Oregon: photo by Russell Lee, November 1941
Photos from Farm Security Administration Collection, Library of Congress
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