[stylist] Poem for Nebraska friends

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Thanks

I can't remember trips across Nebraska being that memorable (except for the time we were driving east on I-80 and found out that we had been driving on black ice for two hours without knowing it.  The road across Nebraska can be deceptive that way.

Actually, we did stop in North Platt for a weekend once, and that was a nice town.  It even had a fenced off area for buffalo in its city park.

I do think, now that I remember, that you mentioned the northern passage, so maybe you didn't cross on I-80.  That would be a passage I've never experienced.

Shawn

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert
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Attached is "Nebraska" a poem.
I wrote this poem as I traveled by car across Nebraska on my way to Silicone Valley, California - in 1991. 
I found it as I am sifting through my poetry archives. I did a bit of tweaking to tighten it up today - thus the copyright change from 1999 to 2013.

As we traveled my husband was driving and as we crossed over one state after another, I was jotting down imagery and notes that later were crafted into poems.


Lynda