Dorothea Lange: 'Migrant Mother' (1936)
Siegel, Joan I
Dorothea Lange: Migrant Mother (1936) After the peas freeze on the vine, they feed on wild birds. Then they feed on dust. Hunger grows fat on their flesh. It climbs up their sleep into their...
...The children wrap around her like a shawl too big to crawl back in...
...There is no reprieve nowhere to go...
...She sits in the roadside tent a lookout still as bark...
...She sells the truck tires for food...
...Joan I. Siegel...
...It climbs up their sleep into their eyes...
...Her ears are caves rattling with ice and wind...
Vol. 129 • November 2002 • No. 20
