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Two poems by Marie Studer

The Last Mile I ran from tail flicking Friesians their eyes, pools of nowhere, and when everywhere wore off I...
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Deer
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Liver and Onions by Joseph Powell

When Bob was married, he went hunting two or three times a year, but just getting out seemed more important...
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rosehips
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Persephone’s Lesson by Mark Grant

How peculiar. Before, David had turned off the main road, walked up the potholed lane, climbed over a rickety stile,...
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Sunflower field
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Ciboloto by Roy Gu

Ciboloto Miss Yang gone to the Western Hemisphere never been back since seeds on her desk have sprouted and grown...
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presbyterian church
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A Lick of Common Sense by Danyl A. Doyle

I was twelve when I figured out God.   Mom was a devout Presbyterian who taught Sunday school. Every evening she...
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Fenceposts in snow
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THE PARLOR: Summertime Cowboy by Sandy Korey

THE PARLOR is a series on The Milk House that embraces the lighter side of rural life. You can find...
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Apple trees
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When They Ring Those Golden Bells by David Estringel 

When They Ring Those Golden Bells  Days fall away like apples from October tress cheeks, full and ablush, kissing silver from delicate wrists...
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fawn in snow
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Two Poems by Mark Strohschein

Exhaust Down the country road I witnessed a lengthy cordial visit. An older man was gabbing colorfully with the farmer’s...
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Ocean storm
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All Souls Lost by Keelan Gallagher

Emerging from the fog bank, the Beatrix appeared before them, a sleeping leviathan suddenly filling their vision in the twilight...
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Poems by Sydney Lea
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Three Poems by Sydney Lea

The question may be raised why we chose precisely the past of a city to compare with the past of...
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open grave
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Alas, Poor Yorick by Michael Durack

William Shakespeare managed to pack an awful lot of drama into his graveyard scene in Hamlet. In fewer than three...
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Ezra Ray by Nick Wynne

Ezra Ray and I grew up together in a small South Georgia town of no more than three thousand persons....
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