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Photo & Poem: Boundary

  Dim light elongates in the lavender dusk, boundaries soften to faded nuance. Barn horses bolt at an inaudible sound,...
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Photo & Poem: Calendar

Tufting the Corgi Do I need a sweater? The evening air has cooled thinner, the time on the clock doesn’t...
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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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Travel Blog: Addressing the Vegetarian Haggis

  Distant Balmoral Edinburgh, Scotland. The first moments in a new country are never the best....
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Photo & Poem: A Smoky Memory

  A dusky pink summer dawn, stepping out the porch door, halt. Dread at the smell of unnatural heat. How...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Unlikely

  She's an economical cat, a tabby with concise ears, a tiny nose, and pointy feet on my sternum, lowering herself to...
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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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Photo Challenge and Poem: Rise/Set

  What is it about a sunset that I cannot look away? Trying to make out a small movement, barely...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Rather

Lying in bed, head deep under, the covers folded so it's dark and warm, and just a thread of fresh...
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