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by Patricia Wellingham-Jones At dawn on a breath-stealing day we took coffee and chocolate milk and mangoed oatmeal to wood chairs by the creek. Our hair feathered in the breeze like dandelion fluff in the last swish of coolness before the north wind fired up the valley. An otter family tumbled sleek brown bodies, splashed among rocks. Fish flicked silver in the white sun of noonday. As finches dipped beaks in a drying bird bath three small boys yipped and shrilled like parrots in the wild of the creekbank. Flung water, smelly sneakers, deflated balls. The western sun slanted apricot rays through cottonwoods. Over the bridge pedaled a mother and daughter in red helmets. Just ...

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