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Reading the Sky

5/18/2019

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Virga is a...shaft of precipitation...that evaporates before reaching the ground...making the clouds appear to have a comma attached.”   Wikipedia

Sometimes
​ the grand Nevada sky

 is punctuated with virgas
and sometimes
we are sentenced
to read 
disappointment
in every direction

​when rain fails
to  reach the ground.





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Thank God for Hollyhocks

5/12/2019

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“Thank God for hollyhocks,” the ranch wife said
as she stood by the side of her truck.

“They go untended, not like everything else

around here.”  She glanced at the house,

the barn, the cows in the field beyond.


“Some say a hollyhock is a large, coarse plant,

like the plainest girl at the dance.

But their colors are pure,

the sturdy stalks stand up to the wind,

the seeds easy to give to a friend.

What’s best is they are familiar,” she sighed.

​“When I see hollyhocks, I know I’m home.”




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The Art of Letting Go

5/4/2019

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I close my eyes

you in a skiff facing seaward

me at water’s edge

holding the bow line

I let go  

eyes open

you bobbing in the slip

a seagull squawking overhead


Painting your face on a kite

I’m holding a taut string

conjuring a whirlwind

I let go

you twirling skyward

in crazy circles

smashing into the branches of a tree.

​serves you right for leaving



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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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