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The Effect of Wind

9/14/2018

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                                    1.

If I were deaf I would watch the motion of branches

and think the trees nod “yes” to some delightful question.

If I were deaf I would be amused by the caprice

of an autumn leaf dashing across the gravel driveway.

I am not deaf and when the  unrelenting wind

conjoins with everything within my hearing,

I remember  my enemies and lose  all peace of mind.


                                  2.


A life in wind-driven country

taught you to lean forward, head down,

trained you to narrow your eyes.

You got used to a wind blowing cold.

Now you lament being bent and old.

​You chose where to live, truth be told.



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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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