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The Dog of Winter (For Ten Bears)

The Dog of Winter (For Ten Bears)

Driving back from California through the desert, one is always cognizant of the hungry world that surrounds you.  The desert may seem still, but...
The Snake Planets

The Snake Planets

I love snakes.  As a kid, I had many boas, corn snakes, fox snakes, and once a speckled king snake that was as beautiful and lithe as yellow-dot...
Winter Crosses

Winter Crosses

Winter in the Badlands is, to say the least, formidable. The wind, hail, snow and freezing-sideways-rain can create a whiteout in seconds.  It i...
The Mad House Scarecrow

The Mad House Scarecrow

“We die of cold, and not of Darkness” –Unamuno Hey– One of my heroes in the poetry world is Mark Turcotte, the Chippewa poet and author of Expl...