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Oregon Rain

Last night it rained, Oregon rain, so hard the chimney sang and this morning more rain, more dark, Oregon dark. There is a cave in

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December Night

An invisible weight falls like snow, thickening on hearts frozen where their better selves lay slain. Strength once rested in a straw-filled manger, needing no

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Gifts to the Solstice

Snow covers the mountains with ice down to the valley floor. Rivers run fast but the banks are frozen, icicles hang from the broken trees.

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What Trembles the Mountain

Memories of the animals fade with the addiction to more. The season asks for repentance but the hymns of division and adulation of things defeat

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