Laura Winkelspecht
Meanwhile in the Heartland
Rural electrification
brought longer days
game shows
Rush Limbaugh,
but it didn’t stop
the highway bypass
the mill from closing,
or the resentment
spreading like rust.
Laura Winkelspecht‘s work has appeared in Clementine Poetry Journal, NEAT, and One Sentence Poems, among others. She is a poet and writer from Wisconsin who writes with the hope of finding some lightning among the lightning bugs. Follow her on Twitter @lwinkelspecht.
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