<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><span></span></div><div><table class="MsoNormalTable" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="556" style="margin-left: -5.4pt; border-collapse: collapse; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; position: static; z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td width="556" style="width: 556pt; border-top-style: none; border-right-style: none; border-bottom-style: none; border-left-style: none; border-width: initial; border-color: initial; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: white; padding-top: 0in; padding-right: 0in; padding-bottom: 0in; padding-left: 0in; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; "><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; ">From a Country Overlooked </div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; "> </div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">There are no creatures you cannot love.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">A frog calling at God<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">From the moon-filled ditch<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">As you stand on the country road in the June night.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">The sound is enough to make the stars weep<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">With happiness.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">In the morning the landscape green<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">Is lifted off the ground by the scent of grass.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">The day is carried across its hours<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">Without any effort by the shining insects<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">That are living their secret lives.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">The space between the prairie horizons<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">Makes us ache with its beauty.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">Cottonwood leaves click in an ancient tongue<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">To the farthest cold dark in the universe.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">The cottonwood also talks to you<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">Of breeze and speckled sunlight.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">You are at home<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">in these great empty places<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">along with red-wing blackbirds and sloughs.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">You are comfortable in this spot<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">so full of grace and being<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">that it sparkles like jewels<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 16pt; ">spilled on water.</p><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Tom Hennen<u></u></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div><br></div></div></body></html>