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A Short Collection of Summer  Traveler Over the eastern Dakotas the winds exhale a cotton ball cloud and push it along over wheat and rivers just in time to notice while finishing The Detroit News and a cup of cold coffee on a Michigan hillside. Chain of Causation The daughters paddled their vacation kayaks so far out the mothers got excited and made the fathers chase them in kayaks It was the daughters plan Laughing the whole time. Right Time, Right Place Drifting on the on a yellow raft floating on the blue earth swirling in the white galaxy was the place to be that Sunday. Some Words in the Dark Evening is a wholesome sunset then Old Grandad, mosquitoes and clumps of conversation The darker it gets the more the conversation opens up until we’re just outlines of figures silenced by lighting and bellow of thunder on the western sky Postscript No wonder the Ojibwa on this land had Animikii, a bird who caused thunder with the...