Crossing Into Iowa by Don Nelson On steel rails westbound horn blaring crossroad, corrugated grain bin, winter wheat flea market, back lot spray painted track-side junk yard, small town water-tank cash crop cell tower, power line signal arm gas truck crossing gate lone tree corn stubble, waterfront steel bridge river barge mark twain sand bar Mississippi milestone. Bio: Don Nelson is from South Bend In. He is a graphic designer specializing in magazine design. He studied visual communication at Herron School of Art and Design and was a graduate student at the University of Notre Dame (communications arts). Act of God by Thomas Alan Orr When the Mississippi crested at Cairo, Illinois, they called in the army to blow the levee, sparing the town and flooding a hundred thousand acres of farmland, doing, the old Mennonite said, what the military does best, wreaking havoc in service to the greater good, a man’s livelihood in exchange for a bel...
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