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Tuesday, November 1, 2016

Powerhouse

            Powerhouse

Concrete powerhouse
Long abandoned
Gothic and forlorn
Once brought power to the valley

Turbines abandoned half a century
Penstock turned to scrap
Foundations of operators' houses
Holes in floor to afterbay

Silent for a generation
Haunts of the wild
Voices of the past
Whisper in the breeze

Transformed communities
Power stepped up
Synchronizing communities
Altering power structure

About the Author:  Brian Bucks lives on a small horse ranch in Western Nebraska and is a husband, father, electrical engineer, and poet.