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RMW
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since 2001-03-21

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0 posted 2004-05-26 06:07 PM

Setting Back-Fires

When spring feels such an oath to weeds
and wives who garden narrow urges,
I glimpse her smile.
I see the look of open range
when it rushes from the trees
clinging close and nervous
up against the Cascade Mountains.
I recollect the way she didn't
move like the rest of us when we hustled
up the trail. Always easy to pick out,
her hips betrayed a desire
to keep her sex anonymous
when in the thick of it. Her helmet jostled
and sat precariously. But when we stopped,
spreading out to set back-fires,
she seemed to fit
perfectly.

RMW

Nightshade

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since 2001-08-31

Posts 13962
just out of reach

1 posted 2004-05-26 06:25 PM

We are women - here us roar!!
Well done - enjoyed. Chris

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.
Hans Christian Anderson

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

Posts 1424

2 posted 2004-05-26 06:27 PM

Chris....laughing....yes, you are! Thank you. Bob

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla

3 posted 2004-05-26 07:02 PM

RMW
Enjoyed the read.

Sunshine

Administrator

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since 1999-06-25

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Listening to every heart

4 posted 2004-05-26 07:44 PM

I know that walk...
especially when working calves
with the cowboys...
making sure they kept their mind
on the job at hand.

Thanks for this, Robert.

time prophet
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since 2003-07-30

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In New Zealand Amongst the Ancient Trees

5 posted 2004-05-26 09:45 PM

That brought a smile to my face.

Enchantress
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since 2001-08-14

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Canada eh.

6 posted 2004-05-26 10:17 PM

Well done Bob!!
Very much enjoyed as usual!!
Hugs~

~Somewhere in my heart I'm always
Dancing with you in the summer rain~

passing shadows
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displaced

7 posted 2004-05-27 03:58 AM

you describe her well

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

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8 posted 2004-05-27 10:33 AM

beautifully thought and written

RMW
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since 2001-03-21

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9 posted 2004-05-27 10:41 AM

Thank you, all, for taking the time to share your thoughts. For those of you unfamiliar with the northwest, we aren't all trees. Oregon is probably close to being half high-desert. The transitions between forests and grasslands, and grasslands and desert have a way about them. Again, thanks much. Bob

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