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D Bedell Sometimes Being Sold Out is Worth the Price
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Sometimes Being Sold Out Is Worth the Price by D Bedell

One Joe Dell, sitting on a basswood stump, looked at the dirty handkerchief, now bloody, that he had wrapped just...
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walking the beans
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Walking Beans by Diane DeBok

It was the second day that Kate and her father walked beans. They had been out since seven a.m. to...
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Bradley David A way of saving
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A Way of Saving by Bradley David

My favorite inheritance is the green toy metal shovel. Also, the elfin-like ski-toed leather booties. Also, the pair of snowshoes,...
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Spider on hand
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Two Poems by Laura Grace Weldon

Foraging Pluck purslane and plantain for salad, shred it small so it slides by skeptics, know you’re kneeling in Eden...
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Rebounders by Don Stewart

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Crossing the Pasture by Ruth Jones

Robert Andrews had a fondness for April, when rain fell daily and water puddled ankle-deep in the low areas around...
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Road that leads nowhere
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Roads That Lead Nowhere and Other Poems by Jeffery Alan Tobin

Roads That Lead Nowhere It isn’t the stillness they talk about, the way the light spills over old barns, or...
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Tobacco Field
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Cigarette-roll by Gwyl Weatherford

“Coach, it’s supposed to rain tomorrow and our raisins are still drying on the ground. My father needs my brother...
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morels
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Maybe I’ll Catch a Second Wind and Other Poems by Luke Janicki

Picking Mushrooms With Papa In Woodinville In the moment, it was what you do. Looking back, it must’ve been strange...
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beets
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67 Years Later, How a Farm Accident Changed our Lives by Carol Fellin

Even after so many years, tears still fill my eyes when I think of my brother’s farm accident. That was...
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The Whitehouse, where US Secretaries of Agriculture work
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US Secretaries of Agriculture: A Brief Look at Their Legacies

There’s always plenty of speculation of who might fill the cabinet as a new US president takes office, following by...
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Dolly Parton
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Only Dolly Can Save Us Now

This piece was written and first published at the end of 2020. * I wasn’t there for the assignation of...
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