Riddle, Oregon
       

Stutter steps of a stray dog
                            range the wind-bit pines.

                Past scattered trailers and the nickel mine,
waste pits shine like the slag of stars.

                              A trussed-up deer dangles from a false cedar.
                Possums squabble for scraps of moon.

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