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Straddled
Diane Glancy

The land is ugly though small yellow wildflowers
poke between the clumps of bunch grass and fescue.
I hear your steps in the brittle field.
The barren caliche.
The dry sky.
If I would come to the door.
If I would open.

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Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. Her latest book, Psalm to Whom(e), was published by Turtle Point Press.

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