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The Ecumenical Nature of Slush

1/14/2017

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Suppose the Pope were in an Oldsmobile
on Interstate 80 driving over the Sierras
as snow becomes slush and the whoosh
of eighteen wheelers turns windshield wipers
to frantic hands helping His Eminence see the road.

The Pope, now in the middle lane, 
expels a mix of dirt and snow
​on those behind and beside him,
and he sighs at the ways we sully each other
​to get to the places we need to go.
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Below Zero

1/9/2017

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I doubt you would like this place.
Blue light on crusted snow,
sage drained of chlorophyll,
grey sky mirrored in the pond.

You say, "The dead of winter."
I hear revving in the distance
as a rancher warms his truck
to feed the bawling cattle.

This below zero day
freezes complicated thought.
The death of desire makes me tired.
​I want to sleep until spring.
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    Nancy Harris McLelland  taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the  Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology  Cowboy Poetry Matters .

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