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I Always Stop for Gas in Lovelock

8/18/2018

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even though no sani-seat covers 
in the regular stall in the ladies room 
at the Standard Station in Lovelock,
a town where lovers lock their love.
In the handicapped stall the lock doesn’t work.
You  prop your purse against the door. 
The Sikh at the register scowls. 
I wonder why he’s here.  
I miss the woman with bubblegum  hair.  
I wonder what happened to her.
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A Catalogue of Exits Not Taken

8/11/2018

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Fernley on ramp
Enter Interstate 80 and head east

These are the exits you didn’t take:
Nightingale
Jessup
Toulon
Oreana
Rye Patch Dam
Humboldt
Imlay
Mill City
Dun Glen
Cosgrave
Rose Creek
Button Point

Exit the interstate at Golconda
​Mostly dirt road home

                                                ​Painting by Marti Bein
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6:00 am August 1, 2018   Tuscarora, Nevada

8/4/2018

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Jackrabbits eating  apples on the lawn,
unripened fruit  dropping out of season.
I find their quietude disconcerting,
disguising  damage they did last winter
killing my young poplar trees.

I find morning stillness  disconcerting.
Even without a breeze, I get a whiff
of the Goose Creek fire in Idaho,
and a whiff of death from the inferno
of the Carr fire in Redding, California.

I can’t really smell terrified children,
singed fur, charred bark,  but it feels like it.






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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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