To Odessa Texas

in #poetry6 years ago (edited)

In West Texas
we are surrounded by flame
derrick, rig, turbine
I use sleep as time travel

The dessert, near spent
hot like your first night in hell
You would never know of her endless fertility,
the wellspring that lies underneath,
if it were not for the machines of man
drilling, pumping, thrusting

Rendering each well
of her subterranean secrets
to fill his pockets
and bleed her dry

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Used to live 80 miles south of Odessa/Midland

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Nice photo...i like it.

Cool picture.

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Highly imaginative and, indeed, fertile poem. Also somehow vast, like Texas is. Upvoted.

Poem shows lot about texas. It shows real picture we did not know. What drilling,pumping shows in texas @pinkspectre ?

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