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Restraint

October 11, 2025 Len Shindel

Never went to war Don’t know what it’s like When team members go down, Bleed out, get shipped home Like

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Brown

November 17, 2023 Len Shindel

Leafless, grey, gnarled, they hibernate in the clays of the brown crag. Their red, yellow, orange gildings, two months

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Transitions

November 7, 2023 Len Shindel

My kitchen is blessed with fruity scents of Ethiopian Oromia, the welcoming traces of Chinatown Coffee Company, that quick but

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Small Town

November 3, 2023 Len Shindel

So you think our small town’s

so damn pretty

while you get on your soapbox

‘bout crime in the city.

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Words

October 19, 2023 Len Shindel

U.S. troops liberated death camps

in the decade before my birth.

My parents didn’t use the word fascism.

But I knew what it meant.

Only two years before my birth,

Israel was declared a state.

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Muskrat Meditation

June 15, 2022 Len Shindel

Sunday morning, damp bench, Deep Creek Lake State Park. Pandemic pup sits beside me, panting after her free run,

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Canyon

May 5, 2022May 5, 2022 Len Shindel

I mount the mule, settle into my chaps, pull up my bandanna. The cowboy cloth, I thought only an accessory,

Len Shindel Literature Poetry

Old Leather

May 8, 2020 Len Shindel

The dogwood I planted last year has sprouted darts, rocks piled on the side, boastful testaments, to pick and shovel,

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I Want a Leader

April 8, 2020 Len Shindel

Photo used under a Creative Commons license from flickr user R. Miller. I Want a Leader I want

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Willow

December 27, 2019 Len Shindel

The dappled willow thrived where the waterlogged yellow cypress had withered. “They’ll drink all the water you can give

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