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borderlands: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 16 November 2013
Pass the Wild Turkey.
Everyone got unspent excuses.
Now it's Wagontire, Oregon,
population seven...
bitter stock water
for a bath out back
of the ramshackle,
shingles-to-the-wind motel.
shingles-to-the-wind motel.
In the sagebrush distance:
sun-parched ranch-family graves.
sun-parched ranch-family graves.
These are good times:
You don't own enough
rope to hang yourself.
Red Shuttleworth: "Pass the Wild Turkey...", from Dog Heart Sleeps Mostly in the Pickup (a verse novella) (Bunchgrass Press, Columbia Basin, Oregon, 2013)
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Truck 4151: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 2 January 2009
Truck 4151: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 2 January 2009
Another old truck: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 20 January 2009
Idaho high desert: photo by Mary Donato (gneissgirl), 14 November 2013