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A time for pause, a time to rest, the sowing done, you've done your best, now weather is both friend and foe, the Doppler watched to keep abreast of coming thunderstorms, although it's early yet, the risk is low. Equipment sits in wait, for now, while shoots define each seeded row. The pace of farming would allow a single respite from the plow, another year, another spring, has etched your face from chin to brow. The price that winter wheat will bring affords you time to have your fling, to go abroad, have fun, relax, let nature do its April thing. For May will come, and too, the tracks of twisters, say the almanacs, though none had ever hit your land, you must rely on callow facts. So take the trip you always planned, regain the drive that you demand, go view the world and know you're blessed to live where generations spanned. 
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Cramped aisles of New York's high-rise apartment buildings wax claustrophobic; Wyoming's wide expanses provide the converse, proudly. 
The gambler leaned across the aisle and tucked the sleeve of Miss Louise. "Excuse the interruption, please, do we have time to play a while?" The callow Miss held back a smile, for now she didn't want to tease. "Why, sir, I think there's time to squeeze a game or two, if that's worthwhile." She found him in the poker room much later, leaving with the pot. "Now, boys," he said, "please don't assume my winning here is luck, it's not. Just skill, I promise, I presumed that cheating here would get me shot." 
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AuthorJack has published over 350 poems in his career, many with his own photography. He specializes in a view of the commonplace and Americana. Archives
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