The beauty here / Tracy Suzanne -- My river / Jeanne Hillis -- Journal from Plush, Oregon / DeeLoris Ann Benson -- Hazel Burnie / Rob Whitbeck -- Unlaced feet / Esa Murrell -- Crossing the Blues: Cabbage Hill / David Memmott -- Dust to dust / Andrea Di Salvo -- On the Umatilla / Pamela Steele -- Waiting for clydesdales / Jonathan Riedel -- Along the Snake / Donald Wolff -- Reverse Migration / Kathleen F. Martin -- Fossil / Jack Lorts -- Ladd Marsh in poor weather / Thomas Madden -- Hat Point lookout / S. Elliott Lawrence -- All the relations / L.W. Bergeron -- Prayer flag / Richard Mack -- Favorite flower / L.W. Bergeron -- Echo, Oregon: a sense of place and history / Diane Berry -- Beneath a blue heronry / Paulann Petersen -- Pond / Don McAllister -- The wanderer / Mary DeViney -- The match / Mary DeViney -- Forty below / Kirsten Badger -- Bummer lamb / Kathleen Edvalson -- The portrait / Kirsten Badger -- Equinox / Linda Elegant -- Changing currents / Gabriel Judah -- 5w / Quinn McElheran -- Columbia Plateau / Don McAllister -- Ode to the John Day-Prineville Highway / Angie Johnson -- The lantern / Samuel Cronin -- Frontera / Maralee Gerke -- The warning / Doug Reid -- The move to the rockpile / Patricia Whitney -- Of men and horses / Joan Arrivee Wagenblast -- The grocery business / Clemens Starck -- For the ghosts of past fire departments in Union, Oregon / Matt Schumacher -- The barn / Deborrah Weth -- The ballad of Fred Winkelman / Jane Davis -- Ode to a buckaroo riding the FS brand / Jennifer Harris -- A winter's tale / Patricia Barnhart -- Bathroom remodel / Bonnita Stahlberg -- The barn / J.E. Davis -- Mother's place / Dorys C. Grover -- Part fish / James Todd Nash -- A sense of place / Kerri L. Puckett -- Near Frenchglen / Barbara Drake -- The emigrant's song / Patti Pointer -- Auction / Rachel Klippenstein -- Check, please / Susan G. Brown -- The boss of the kitchen / Donna Quick Polka -- Old man and coyote / Jenny Moore -- Graves in wheat: La Grande / Thomas Madden -- Mother Nature's picture frame / Tamra Kinzel-Wood -- Hands / Pamela Steele -- Requiem for the willows / Janie Tippett -- Haiku / Quinn McElheran -- The lane / Greg K. Allen -- Natural history / Maralee Gerke -- The state that never was / Katharine E. Matchette -- Called home / Toni Baille -- A grave near Dry Falls / Terry Lee Moser -- The cowboy's funeral / Jack Lorts -- Main Street, U.S.A. / Angelyn Ray -- Death haiku Meredith Matthews -- Last storm / Lyn Craig -- Why I live here / Heather Rudolph -- Wind / Patricia Rowe -- Sound the cymbals / Nancy Dake -- Lambing in Summerville, Oregon / Jennie Tucker -- Incarnadine / Terry Lee Moser -- Wind and thunder / Patricia Rowe -- Babe's tantrums / Barrett James Walker -- Cows, cougars and compromise / Dave Rama -- Only the best / Dave Rama -- Huckleberrying / Matt Schumacher -- The call / Esa Murrell -- Jackrabbits for supper / Jody Foss -- Breaking bales / Kathleen Edvalson -- Autumn leaves / Robin Roberts -- The rivers are the borders / Vicki Correll -- Incident in Uncle Zack's corral / Roger Keys Weaver -- The riggin slinger / Rob Whitbeck -- In my world / Nancy Dake -- Planting / Jonathan Riedel -- Death in the garden / Susan G. Brown -- Rite of passage / Brent Larson -- From a deep sleep / William Hancock -- That black silk dress / L. Roetzel -- The man who dreamed the pearl away / L. Roetzel -- The comfort of space / Sarah Madsen -- View from a school bus / Rebecca Miles -- Auction / Rachel C. Klippenstein -- Home / Pam Hankins -- Wedding quilt / Patricia Barnhart -- East side patchwork / Sharon Jones -- Extinction / Tamra Kinzel-Wood -- A different kind of cowgirl: the ranch wife / Pat Stagner -- When soil presses shoe leather / Donna Quick Polka -- Simple words about a grand place / Alisha N. Young -- A night and morning first time drive to Portland / Peter Sears -- Rocky Mountain elk / Richard Mack -- The chickens move in / Marjorie Thelen -- A look back / Greg K. Allen -- Sunset from Cabbage Hill / Thomas Madden -- The great possum caper / Thomas G. Marks -- Sunrise on Ferry Canyon / Ted Molinari -- Some days take the glamour out of being a cowboy / Barrie Qualle -- Death in the garden / Susan G. Brown -- For June canyons / Deborrah Weth -- Afternoon train / Linda Elegant -- Susanville gold / Lorene Allen -- Crane dorms / Nancy Knowles -- The coolest cat / Donna Clements -- A walk in the rain / Amy Strommer -- Spiders / Dorys C. Grover -- The changing room / Angelyn Ray -- I like growing older / Tracy Suzanne -- Leopard / Lyn Craig -- Bone dancing / Colleen MacLeod.

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