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Flathead Lake, Montana
Lying here on the short grass, I am a bowl for sunlight. Silence. A bee. The lip of water over stones. The swish and slap, hollow under the dock....
Weather Forecast: Prolonged Dry Period
The cattle who should, according to folklore, be lying down at the approach of rain, stand skeptical in a field of ragged green. The sky, a surging pewter, exhibits...
Sparrow Falling
A shifting net of birds swelling over the pasture, turning, an amoeba, now dark and granular as dying, now an invisible, a thin fluid slicing light. Folding, the winged black knot...
Careless Flying
I I have been considering the ravens, who live without worrying and have no bins or barns And have no reaping machines. Yet they are fed well—their bodies sleek,...