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October Morning

10/31/2019

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You open the bedroom curtain
and it’s hallelujah outside.
The ordinary patio gold-leaved,
the cottonwood trees lit from within.
For a moment you can 
withstand the splendor,
accept the hallowed ground,
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believe in the glory of endings.

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Mirror, Mirror on the Bathroom Wall

10/18/2019

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Each morning I mourn my reflection 
by asking a metaphysical question:

Who is this  woman watching me wash 
a crumpled face and brush ragged  teeth?

Why do I wonder whether I am  seeing
a doppelganger goose or a transgander?

Here’s the Siri-us hitch:  I ask my reflection
 a question and I’m replied by a virtual bitch.

“Your face would turn a thousand ships the other direction,”
 she observes with bemused affection.

 Some days I’m glad for our mourning conversation, 
 when the image of a disheveled septuagenarian  

gives me a special dispensation with a yawn, 
“You will  miss me when I’m gone.”









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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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