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South African Farm
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Father Land by Ralph Pooler

In the shadow of South Africa’s great escarpment, the Ngwangwana river meanders east towards the Indian Ocean through a valley...
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Drumnacross by Edward Denniston

No talking to you now, quiet boy, holding May Elliott’s hand at the back of a ditch standing beside Bobby...
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Crow
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Two Poems by Jonathan Humble

Masterclass The shed was an apex all-wood home-built construction, erected that furnace of a summer when we burnt in the...
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Regarding Memory, by Jon Fisher

“Memory is non-linear by default!” I scrawled this on the back of a grocery receipt in April of this strange...
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Empowering On and Off the Mat, by Kennady Donovan

Throughout the entire state of Iowa, there has been a rise in popularity amongst girls participating in the sport of...
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Mouse in house
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This Day by Deb Stark

We have a mouse in the house this morning. It found the bread I’d left out to thaw for the...
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The Milking Apprentice by Andy Offer

It’s 4.15 am as the alarm goes off. I’m wide awake anyway, knowing I’ve got my first morning milking on...
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When Dawn Breaks Us, by Dana VanderLugt

April 21. 4:37 a.m. The moon shines. Stars signal a clear sky. No clouds to provide a barrier to the...
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Cropduster, by Mark Jones

I spent the next few days kind of mulling about. Trucks came for bales around noon, but I learned to...
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Two Poems by Jennifer A. Walker

Relic & once a series of pulleys rose sweet hay to the high-arched loft & once cattle were milked with...
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farm dog
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In Praise of Farm Dogs by Tom Milburn

Like just about everyone else in my suburban neighbourhood, I have a dog. Three times a day, I walk this...
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sunrise
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The Silence of Daybreak by Michael H Brownstein

The vocabulary of whisper begins with fog over the river, a white break in the cloud cover, the great mastiffs,...
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