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Roy Beckemeyer<\/h1>\n

Leaning Westward<\/span><\/h2>\n

Sunrise stretching up behind us, the moon
\nfading to a watermark in the backlit sky,
\nwe roll miles off I-70, watch rivers <\/p>\n

go thready as the horizon expands into this
\nflatness that time has used to cap the Ogallala, <\/p>\n

watch fields gradually go from square to circular,
\ncities wind down to scatterings of people spread
\nhere and there over the wide landscape, while <\/p>\n

cattle, once dotted across vast pastures, are now
\ncrowded shoulder to shoulder in feedlot ghettos.
<\/code>
\nRoy Beckemeyer<\/strong>‘s book, <\/em>Music I Once Could Dance To (2014, Coal City Press, Lawrence, KS) was a 2015 Kansas Notable Book.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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