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poems by Christina Hennemann
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Two Poems by Christina Hennemann

Country Love and Lore Scarecrow needs a new suit. What will the neighbours think, between our field and theirs it...
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Carrots
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Weeding in the Tillage Field c.1969 by Edward Denniston

Weeding in the Tillage Field c.1969 Drizzly rain in for the day. The young lad, set to weeding the tillage-patch...
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country lane
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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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The Good old Bad Days by Laura Lewis
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The Good Old Bad Old Days by Laura Lewis

In 1916, when my great grandfather died at the age of eighty-two in Gallatin, Missouri, he left each of his...
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laneway landmark
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Laneway Landmarks by Julie A. Sellers

The rural mailboxes that marked the turning point to farmhouse laneways dotting the Kansas countryside were landmarks to those wandering...
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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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