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Rural Voices by Amelia Michelle Nicol
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Rural Voices by Amelia Michelle Nicol

Rural Voices Measures of separation These mountains between Stakes set by generations Traveling the same Wilderness between sunsets These colors...
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Dead Owl by J. R. Solonche
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Dead Owl and Other Poems by J. R. Solonche

Swans When the four emerged from the eggs, I knew the odds. One or two would make it. The others...
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At the Hour of Milk by Julie Esther Fisher
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At the Hour of Milk by Julie Esther Fisher

At the Hour of Milk When the barn lit up for the very first time the cows in their stanchions...
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Dosing Calves by Edward Denniston
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Dosing Calves c 1968 by Edward Denniston

Heat and steamy breath from big-eyed young calves crammed into the stone outhouse, sentient, persistent in this old loft of...
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Field Notes and Other Poems by D. R. James
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Field Notes from an Old Chair and Other Poems by D.R. James

Field Notes from an Old Chair Well, they’ve come, these early crews though it’s only March, which in Michigan means...
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poems by James Lowell
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The Last Farm Stand and Other Poems by James Lowell

The Last Farm Stand She comes laden across the bay, and I am halfway down the hill to the ferry...
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Grieving Horses by Julia H. Fonte
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Grieving Horses by Julia H. Fonte

Grieving Horses The last thing I expected turning into the gravel drive were four red manes bowing over a split...
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Benjamin Green The Sugars of Existence
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The Sugars of Existence by Benjamin Green

The Sugars of Existence What he feels, he acts upon; What determines truth describes consequence. Aspens in the high country,...
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Education by Sydney Lea
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Education by Sydney Lea

Education … Fortunate Fields—like those of old Sought in the Atlantic Main, why should they be A history only of...
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The Seventh Whistler by Jonathan Humble
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The Seventh Whistler by Jonathan Humble

The Seventh Whistler (after William Wordsworth) By slough and marsh my dog commits to muck and fun on coastal walk...
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Oyster World by Cayla Garman
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Oyster World by Cayla Garman

Oyster World You massacred those oysters when we were girls, wrenched them from the river mud despite my pleas that...
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Watching the Combines Daril Bentley
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Watching the Combines and Other Poems by Daril Bentley

Darkroom The past would seem to exist beneath a red light behind a door seldom opened save to revisit photographs...
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