Dorothea Lange's Man Beside Wheelbarrow, by Brian Kates

Man Beside Wheelbarrow, photography by Dorothea Lange (USA) 1934

Dorothea Lange's Man Beside Wheelbarrow

wheelbarrow
overturned

a man 
head down

jobless defeated
back  
         
against
the wall

so much depended
upon that

              wheelbarrow

Brian Kates

Brian Kates, a longtime newspaper man, holds a Pulitzer Prize, George Polk Award for editorial writing and Daniel Pearl Award for investigative reporting. His book, The Murder of a Shopping Bag Lady, was a finalist for Mystery Writers of America’s Edgar Allan Poe Award in non-fiction. Two of his poems were published in The Ekphrastic Review in 2019. Other poetry has appeared in Third Wednesday, Common Ground Review, Poem, Red River Review, Modern Haiku, Frogpond, bottle rockets and cattails.  He lives with his wife in a house in the woods in the lower Hudson Valley.