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Photo & Poem: Dignity

If only she was more demure, that her words had come with a coy smile, eyes dropped to her sunken...
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The Big Picture, Thank You.

  Horse people can be a little intense. Come to think of it, I can't say I've ever met anyone who...
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Photo & Poem: Cold Front

A flannel barn shirt buttoned but resisting a jacket, feeling as uneasy as the horses, hay blown wide, flighty hooves...
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Photo & Poem: Beginning the Fall

  A heat so profound that horses were knocked back, sheltering all day in small shade, relief for the sparse...
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Photo & Poem: Roots

  There was a single elm on the short path from the house to barn, its trunk no larger than...
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Photo & Poem: Ducks and Geese

  Seven iced-over winters followed by sweet bugs on long summer days. Flightless old girls with twisted toenails and dim...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Twisted

Midnight in Alaska   The wheels of my bag click over the tile floor, scanning signs...
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Heart Horses

  "He's my Heart Horse," she says by way of introduction. A hush falls over the room. Or maybe that's just...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Place in the World

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Water creeping across the prairie, a wandering path of small ponds in a landlocked state,...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Awakening

    It's for me to worry about a winter dry enough for early grass fires, mine the worry for a...
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