yellow-billed cuckoo
tufted puffin
Columbian sharp-tailed grouse
Columbia Basin pygmy rabbit
grizzly bear
Oregon silver-spot butterfly.
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When we'd pull off 142
Top of the grade
It was a couple miles to our destination
There by the ramshackle farmhouse, dilapidated trucks
Rotting porch returning to nature
With humans living in accessory mobile home, the road solid but worn by a century of big trucks and there foot snows
Across this single lane rut
Would dart the quail, quizzically running
Alongside bunnies making haste toward blackberry labyrinths
Wintertime, herds of 50 deer
Coyote sirens who knows how far off calling long distance
People weren't meant to have more guns than cunning there
Balance under the transmission lines strutting over salmon,
A body of water at the base of drainage for 1000 acres of field
Full of tadpoles in summer,
Aflutter with bird most year round
It's all precious enough to defend, the balance.
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