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the Sound of One Shoe Dropping

9/7/2019

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What if the one-legged tenant in the upstairs apartment
 
drops his boot with a thump and there you are staring
 at the ceiling, waiting, because  you never bothered to learn
 who lives above, below, or about any neighbor, for that matter,
 and you are waiting for something that’s not going to happen, 
and you are missing out on meeting a really good person,
 but no, not you, with your negative expectation
and lurid imagination, you insist on reading the worst  
 in the paint’s imperfections, in the shadows and cracks, 
and you persist in believing doom follows gloom
​ as night follows day and there you are waiting...


 
  

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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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