Hard Stands in the Los Angeles Review of Books

From dirty snowbanks in Burns, Oregon in early 2016 to socialist-farmer uprisings in my community in the 1840s and finally to a double-wide on the Malheur Refuge last Halloween... I write about populist uprisings, socialist leanings, how the yeoman’s dream has been co-opted, and I find a copy of Poetry Magazine in that double-wide. It’s the same double-wide where the FBI had been living during the Bundy militia uprising at the refuge. Imagine the FBI and their tactical gear, body armor and Oakley glasses reading Danniel Schoonebeek: 

The cottonwood could stand up from the rails and dust off her own blood herself.
Resume her cold work, untangling the grasses.

If you could watch my train resume its terrible campaign for the west.

Or you can read the whole thing here