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when golden waves of grain were hays
my beer glass wasn't made from corn
rats spanned Lake Washington, that
eerie underwater forest, scary seminary
east side echoing secrets madrona trees
for home sunset drive in bavarian gardens
open opposites and Ballard seemed Oslo
Issaquah backwoods Monroe felons
Smith Brothers and Carnation milk
Tillicum Junior High Lake Sammamish
Snoqualmie Falls, kinnikinnik, Tacoma,
Enumclaw, Puyallup, Yakima,
Swinomish, Skykomish, Wenatchee
Klickitat, Entiat, Wapato, Chelan
Walla Walla, Walawah, Hoquiam,
Cowlitz, Skokomish, Snoqualmoo,
Tulalip, Skagit, Muckleshoot, Makah,
S'Klallam, Nooksack, Nisqually,
Sook, Samish, Duwamish, Hoh,
Kalispel, Squaxin, Spokane, Lummi,
my grandmother Brownie Ethel
might have been Indian, taught fourth
grade. She died my mother said
"of a broken heart" my father engaged
to be married. Relatives maybe
S'Klallam lived in Sequim.