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    Country Time
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    Ebook58 pages19 minutes

    Country Time

    By Michael Ollie Clayton

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    About this ebook

    Select poems from the author's body of collected work. Clayton offers insightful observations about rusticity and nature in general.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateOct 2, 2011
    ISBN9781365613395
    Country Time

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      Country Time - Michael Ollie Clayton

      Country Time

      Country Time

      Michael Ollie Clayton

      Copyright  © 2006 by Michael Ollie Clayton

      ISBN #: 978-1-365-61339-5

      All rights reserved.  No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      This book was printed in the United States of America.  

      Select material from the author’s entire body of work is collected in this book.

      Contents

      Country Time

      Michael Ollie ClaytonCopyright  © 2006 by Michael Ollie Clayton

      Country Blues

      When We Buried Bigmama

      Columbia, Gone Away

      The Mystery Of Sunshine

      Steps Of The Family

      A Harvest’s Spoil

      What Angeline McClain Would Do...

      Irony!

      They Call Me Junior

      God’s Mathematics

      Birdsong

      Why’s

      What Dirt Can Do...

      Teaser

      Hectic Commotion

      An Artist Called Nature: Colors...

      Etc., Etc., Etc...

      Not To Worry

      Part Of The Whole

      Contrastables

      The Pitiful Me

      We

      Extra Rain

      Briefly

      The White Crane

      Kelp Garden Den

      Reassembled Dust

      Origin Unknown

      When Children Leave...

      Resigned To Destiny: Down To Earth...

      The Shadow Of The Tree

      Shouted The Tree, I’m Still Here!

      Everythang

      My Discovery Channel Revelation

      The Drying Of The Well

      The Province

      This Time

      Flyin’ High

      Rustic Anticipation

      Outside In...

      How Deep The Disconnect...?

      How Sweet It Isn’t

      A Matter Of Hierarchy

      With Or Without

      Country Blues

      A neighbor’s cows trampled a fence

      and destroyed a quarter-acre of purple hull peas.

      The gate to the garden was left open

      and the geese and the chickens and the turkeys and the ducks

      tore

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