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Get Over It!

7/13/2019

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Between me and the clothesline--
a bull snake whose  blotches blend

with wet dirt and dead leaves.

No hiss or fake rattlesnake coil,

still-- silly me--I shield myself

with a plastic laundry basket.


Last summer, I was enthralled

by a bull snake in my apple tree.

Disguised by the mottled bark,

 it stretched toward a robin’s nest,

and, yes, I couldn’t help but wonder

what the heck Eve was thinking.


The year before, a pair mated

near the garage door, and so much for 

rural advice, “They eat rats.  They eat mice.”

I said it twice before the urge took hold

to hack them with a rake. Instead, I  yelled, 

“Go get a room at the bullsnake motel!”


Even now, there’s an image I cannot erase 

​of the hapless snakes who tainted my space.




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Xerxes Flogs the Water

7/6/2019

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   “And swelled with thoughts/presumptuous…”
                 from The Persians by Aeschylus

Some say we, too, in the hands of a whack-the-water man.
Ooooops! Did I open a whoop-ass worm can? 
Ew!
Speaking of dog food, Baxter Boo dog clothes online
Unicorn Fufu Tutu Iridescent Doggie Dress
Rainbow Sequins for only  fifty ninety-nine,
comes in red, blue and purple, too.
Psst!
I’m selling Betsy Ross dental floss
for real teeth and fake teeth, yessiree.

You’re all crazy except me, me, me

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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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