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Channel: April 2015 – Notes from a Western Life
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Birds of Spring

Slog, slog, slog. Step by step I plodded through the deep mud of the calving corral, pushing a stumbling newborn calf and his mother through the falling snow into the barn where the baby could get dry...

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Creating a Cowboy Poem: How Buzzards Turned into Priests

Vultures on a neighbor’s barn. In honor of National Cowboy Poetry Week, April 19 to 25, I’m looking at how I created one of my few rhyming poems, “Priests of the Prairie” (2004). My first intention was...

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Blacksmith or Wordsmith: Time, Patience, Skill, Artistry

At the basement entrance to our house stands our Iron Wall, a retaining barrier covered with old rusty tools. The wall is a stack of railroad ties linked by rebar to hold the earth from the hillside...

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How to Write A Poem: The Snake Within

When I’m having trouble writing, one of my favorite methods to start the process is to write a “How To” poem. This is probably why there are zillions of the things floating around, but that doesn’t...

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Writing: Where I’ve Been — A Writer’s Best Friend: The Faithful Editor

Writers complain about editors as reliably as the sun also rises. Here’s my secret: how I learned to be happy in a world full of editors. After all, I’ve been writing for fifty years. I could do...

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