| If I write 200 poems a year | #GovernorPattersonMemorial #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| Resurrect our hopes | #YaquinaBayBridge #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| At least I have the satisfaction of knowing | #YaquinaBay #YaquinaBayBridge #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| He went and left me in the lurch, but I don't mind | #YaquinaBay #NewportBayfront #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| So here's what I choose. I will give him grace | #NewportMarina #NewportBayfront #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| Some are small and simple, like stone or salt or sea | #YaquinaBay #NewportBayfront #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| Do you give me your word | #NewportBayfront #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| As I move through spheres of sound and silence | #YamhillCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| Participant in the world of all things | #YaquinaBay #NewportBayfront #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| She was there in the beginning | #NewportMarina #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| So hear am I, sitting in my own quiet spot | #OregonCoast #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| I'm grateful to have been included in that world | #YaquinaBay #NewportBayfront #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| He got up at 4:00 every morning to sit in the quiet and wait | #YaquinaBayBridge #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Close to the Ground by Nancy Thomas |

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| People in cars are on their way to work | #YaquinaBayBridge #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Just looking around will suffice | #YaquinaBayBridge #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Everything is fine | #SealRock #SealRockStateWayside #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| This time I want to leave it be | #GovernorPattersonMemorial #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Moving down and inward where a poem is meant to go | #GovernorPattersonMemorial #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| That constant, distant, washy rumbling under the world | #OregonCoast #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Would any bridge span a river? | #AlseaBayBridge #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I am doing no harm, nor am I doing much good | #GovernorPattersonMemorial #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| There was talk of war this morning on the radio | #GovernorPattersonMemorial #Waldport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| There is kind of a sweet pointlessness that can visit at any time | #CapePerpetuaOverlook #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Your face, smiling | #SealRock #SealRockStateWayside #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| All of this will come together the minute I see you again | #DevilsChurn #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| It seemed we had come a little closer to somewhere | #CapePerpetuaOverlook #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Once upon a time | #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I find myself wishing | #ThorsWell #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| All their earthly joys | #DevilsChurn #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I slow down even more to notice | #CooksChasmBridge #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Their sweet mocking laughter | #CapePerpetuaOverlook #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Even better was the sound | #Yachats #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I had slipped out of the enclosure of the past | #BrianBoothStatePark #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| They are all talking amongst themselves about the cloudy weather | #SealRockStatePark #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Nothing about the scene asked to be changed | #DevilsChurn #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I sat there long enough | #ThorsWell #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| As optical illusions go it was one of the more spectacular | #YaquinaBayBridge #YaquinaBay #Newport #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Bound by wonderment | #ThorsWell #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| To shift from one place to another | #CooksChasmBridge #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| I looked | #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| It passes the time to wonder | #CapeFalcon #OswaldWest #TillamookCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| If only for the sake of remembering | #TwinRocks #RockawayBeach #TillamookCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| There is no telling | #ThorsWell #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Many of them appeared only in dreams | #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Keeping an eye on things | #OswaldWest #TillamookCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| There was no one there lying next to me | #ShortSands #OswaldWest #TillamookCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| It would have taken some time to make anyone see | #DevilsChurn #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| People usually get where they are going | #ThorsWell #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Then walked our separate ways in the world | #BlumenthalCreek #BlumenthalFalls #OswaldWest #TillamookCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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| Like thought balloons from the 5th century | #DevilsChurn #CapePerpetua #LincolnCounty #Oregon | from Billy Collins in Horoscopes for the Dead |

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