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By Richard Luftig<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I.<\/span><\/p>\n

Empty roads arrow\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Away from center of town.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Wind cracked cottonwoods.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

II.<\/span><\/p>\n

Once full fields now caked\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

With draught. Mud-cracked plats where old\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Dreams have come to die.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

III.<\/span><\/p>\n

Whiskers of wheat beards.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Corn. Places that pride themselves\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Center of nowhere.<\/span><\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

IV.<\/span><\/p>\n

Wind your only friend.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lone constant that has your back<\/span><\/p>\n

When all else is gone.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Richard Luftig I. Empty roads arrow\u00a0 Away from center of town.\u00a0 Wind cracked cottonwoods.\u00a0   II. Once full fields now caked\u00a0 With draught. Mud-cracked plats where old\u00a0 Dreams have come to die.\u00a0   III. Whiskers of wheat beards.\u00a0 Corn. Places that pride themselves\u00a0 Center of nowhere.   IV. Wind your only friend. Lone constant… Continue Reading Haiku for an Empty Town<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"parent":21,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-296","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":334,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/296\/revisions\/334"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euphemism.illinoisstate.edu\/20-2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}