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        From different view ad different vantage, Annie gazed o same sky-change—sounds of softer incessance; a softer futility, a subtler desperation—and watching with wonder on star’s slow reveal, she dreamed too of open wilds.

        Ryan gazed on the last of daylight’s fading, serenity marred by near sounds of highway passings, white lights in movement to the east and red to west into and out of the near town.  Dogs barked, agitated and vocal for reasons they couldn’t explain but struck at something in them just as people […]

        “I didn’t think you wanted a cigar tonight.”         “I didn’t.”         “Then why are you having one?”         “All I wanted was to sit down to a little quiet and read…I have moved and tried every room, space, and area in the house.  There is no […]

               Daylight broke as skyline fire fast muted into rose.  After, flame departed and James lamented loss of the glory-vision.                 In compassion, Annie came to him, and with kiss, dispelled the after-cloud that formed at departing of the view.                 “There’s always another day,” she spoke, touching still to him, arms draped above shoulders […]

        Ground was soft and in afternoon, he pulled posts in forward face to blow off a western wind.  In the softness from rains, snows, and saturating mists, the posts pulled easy without need for chain or loader’s aid; and he stacked them in bucket as he went.           The little tractor […]