Safe Zone

Poem By Jone Rush MacCulloch

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You walk to the river's edge with fishing gear,
hand-tied stoneflies, tiny sculptures
luring the native trout.
Basalt walls of the Deschutes 
cradling, protecting the flowing river, "
cradling you, protecting you.