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I step out the door,

Another muggy fall day:

Mules trudge through the field.

 

Mud slowly sucks at my step;

I shall fall and become earth.

 

(September 20, 2018)

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I am a poet and a teacher living in central Texas. I attended The University of Texas at Austin, and Middlebury College's Breadloaf School of English.

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