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Subject: PLAINS - TEXAS
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` MERCY AND THE BRAZOS RIVER, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: My great-greats came to hardscrabble plains
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Loss; Moving & Movers; Prairies - Texas; Refugees; United States - Immigration & Emigtration; Plains - Texas


SETTLING THE PLAINS (1), by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD                        Poet's Biography
First Line: For here and for the afterlife
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Religion; Plains - Texas; Theology


SKETCHES OF THE TEXAS PRAIRIE: 'APRIL RAINS', by GEORGE BOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: There is magic in the april rains
Last Line: Of vivid texas flowers.
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Rain; Plains - Texas


STARTING A PASTURE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: This far out in the country no one is talking
Last Line: Honking, sticking their heads out the windows and laughing.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Subject(s): Prairies - Texas; Plains - Texas


WITCHING ON HARDSCRABBLE, by WALTER ROBERT MCDONALD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Farming on dry land, a man keeps his witch-stick
Last Line: Brought in elsewhere in texas. With my own eyes.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mcdonald, Walt
Variant Title(s): Witching
Subject(s): Drought; Farm Life; Prairies - Texas; Water; Agriculture; Farmers; Plains - Texas