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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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See It Through His Eyes

It's a perfect day. No wind, not hot. The kind of day that you spend most of the months of...
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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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A Natural Instinct to Dominate

I find it fascinating to watch children talking to animals. It's almost like studying mustangs. Kids are who we are,...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: All Time Favorite

Directions Turn on the dirt road at the bottom of the hill, then go past the big curve. Slow on...
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The Middle Path: Lighten Up, It's All Your Fault

Sometimes people tell me that I'm preaching to the choir with my blog. That it's the other "really creepy horse...
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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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Bringing Horses Home

We don't ask much from horses. It starts simply. On the day that we are thrilled to get the horse...
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"Horse Prayers" Cover Reveal

Horse Prayers   Poems from the Prairie Hooray, it's the cover of my next book. I know, it's a totally different look...
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Photo Challenge & Poem: Liquid

  I saw him first, diagonal light giving a soft profile against a black-blue shadow, then he turned and time...
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