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Ken Long
The Communion of Dogs
The Communion of Dogs The Communion of Dogs The dog four doors down is barking Mine is sleeping The dog next door starts to bark Mine rushes...
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Janet Benlien Reeves
Hardwood Floors and Fur
Hardwood Floors and Fur She takes a tentative step off the carpet then dances her retreat. Tries again—a little to the left. Sits down. Expe...
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Danny Stone
Glimpsing Another
Glimpsing Another The octopus is photographed underwater lone traveler on a backdrop of blue deep-sea alien dotted with iridescent rings. ...
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Rhett Watts
Before the Storm
Before the Storm Hawk swings high. Smaller birds shelter from winds too loud for song. Oak and maple speak leaf on leaf as groundwater lif...
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Corrine Walsh
Bird Habits
Bird Habits Crows are one of those few species of birds who prefer to walk or hop instead of flying. Can you imagine, being able to fly and...
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Roger Funston
Elephant Moments
Elephant Moments Hundreds of elephants leave forested hills for water hole trumpeting throwing mud on their backs rolling in the water Herd ...
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Bruce Morton
Marianne Tefft
Ken Gosse
On Being Bart
On Being Bart Mew won’t knock anything onto the floor. He doesn’t play games; rarely stares out the door. He’ll climb down a cat tree but ne...
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Lynn White
Gary Beck
Failing Wings
|Failing Wings I am old and tired. Soon I won’t be able to fly, then I’ll die. There used to be many Grackles soaring and displaying in fiel...
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Lorraine Caputo
On El Panecillo
On El Panecillo In the shade of gnarled elder trees clawing into the eastward slopes rest a tethered donkey two calves and a trio of wallow...
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Roger Funston
And Then the Swans Came
And Then the Swans Came Honking geese overhead flying in formation This year’s waterfowl migration is beginning Drive the farm roads in earl...
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Wendy Westlake
One Who Watches
One Who Watches At sunset sunlight peeks holes of pale blue into peach layers above. Crows fly, play in the winds of fast moving clouds. Wi...
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Guy Reed
Gary Beck
Failing Wings
Failing Wings I am old and tired. Soon I won’t be able to fly, then I’ll die. There used to be many Grackles soaring and displaying in field...
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Gary Beck
Dimming Calls
Dimming Calls We once had great flocks and swarmed the fields ignoring the scarecrows. Some of us would fall from the farmer’s shotgun, but ...
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Bob McAfee
Lucy Dreams of Wolves
Lucy Dreams of Wolves You run with wolves in the pine frost forest, your buckskin gown drenched with dawning dew, dancing again with the al...
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Stephen Barile
Four Black Coots
Four Black Coots Under a blanket of prairie grasses, beneath a thunder moon, masses of lampyridae play tag with lover’s hands. A night smoth...
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Stephen Barile
Coyotes in the Vineyard
Coyotes in the Vineyard for Miranda There is a captivating charm In a viticultural landscape, An ancient grape vineyard Where symmetr...
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