montana

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bitteroot valley
elk stop for aspen breakfast -
tenuous balance
(2-10)

choteau fourth - one view

'f th'events of little bighorn

upsets th'local girl

(10-14)

trout bucket spills, fish

flail in pickup bed, locusts

screech - road to bozeman

(9-14)

small tent in glacier,
food hung in tree, sounds of woods -
she hears bears all night
(2-14)




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glacier campsite bear –

they invited her t’dinner,

she had other plans

(6-15)

uphill, th'wide prairie -

cyclist on two says he's got

new view of 'big sky'

 (10-14)

surprise creek baseball -
game with no fences, challenge
to contain oneself
(10-10)

rising sun cyclist –

by day, pedals th’mountain cliffs

by night, campfire tales

(6-15)

th’roads‘re narrow, th’cliffs‘re steep –

cycling th’sun highway, she says,

th’high point of her life

(6-15)

husband’s ‘n stocks ‘n’ bonds,

she says, ‘bout t’ride th’sun road cliffs,

he studies risk ‘t home

(6-15)

 

thunder, august squalls,
trucker grinding ev'ry gear-
coming out of butte
(1-07)







bear crosses road to
m'ssoula, back into sumac -
and not to college
(8-05)








rains in kalispell -
leaves blown down past camper where
hunters are huddled
(2-10)







cabin at foot of
elevation mountain - watch
orion stand tall
(2-10)







rancher eyes raven,
wolf tracks in snow - there's trouble
in the bitteroot
(2-10)







billings policeman
knows when blizzard's expected
and who'll be stranded
(9-08)







ranchers here'n cam'ron
have trouble getting calves through
winter without wolves
(2-10)






gears shift, trucks rumble,
orion pokes fire embers -
butte cloverleaf fades...
(9-05)






field of camas waves -
four dogs, three hikers, old truck,
winds through lolo pass
(1-13)

river ice breaks up,

fishin's good, but he dries out

in a bozeman jail

(1-12)

koot'nai wilderness -

from th'top 'f th'boxcar, th'mountain springs,

watch out for th'tunnel!

(12-14)

eureka teller
smiles at loonies and toonies -
spring's come down th'rockies
(2-10)

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