Wright, Carolyne

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Volume 21Issue 1 Fall/Winter Article 1011-15-2001Stealing the Children: After a Big Wind inWyomingCarolyne WrightFollow this and additional works at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westviewPart of the Fiction Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Photography Commons, and the PoetryCommonsThis Poetry is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals atSWOSU Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Westviewby an authorized administrator of SWOSU Digital Commons. For moreinformation, please contact phillip.fitzsimmons@swosu.edu.Recommended CitationWright, Carolyne (2001) "Stealing the Children: After a Big Wind in Wyoming," Westview: Vol. 21 : Iss. 1 , Article 10.Available at: https://dc.swosu.edu/westview/vol21/iss1/10Stealing the Children: After a Big Wind in Wyomingby Carolyne WrightIt’s not the kind of country where you can walk dry-eyed. An olive-green wind blows dust up and down the alleys, gathers dry leaves in its fists for storm.It’s the kind of town where, if you leave your children unattended, the wind drives up for them in its long, black station wagon.They go so willingly they leave their tricycles scattered over three backyards.Later, you roam the feedlots,poking among freight rails that writhedlike wounded serpents while the twisterpassed over. Your own mindis blown so dry it can’t recallwho they were, those who left in mid-gale,clambering into the front seat of the wind,not even waving goodbye as they blew downthe street, leaving only scraps of their voices,like strewn toys, on your lawn.©1978 by Carolyne Wright; from Stealing the Children (Ahsahta Press)W E S T V  I E W 13

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