3/25/2023 0 Comments Taipan gta![]() The day was pleasantly warm, and a breeze stirred an agreeable fragrance from some nearby Douglas firs. A jungle gym was to their left, a swing set to their right. They sat at a redwood picnic table on the playground, after Holly checked the bench to be sure there was no dirt on it that might stain her white cotton dress. The next to t city-Portland, Oregon-struck a spark of inspiration in him, and he went straight to the ticket counter. ![]() He read the destinations from top to bottom on the monitor. Unfortunately the poems were jejune, dismally sentimental celebrations of the natural world that read like something written by a Robert Frost manque, then filtered through the sensibilities of a Hallmark editor in charge of developing saccarine cards for Grandma's birthday. She enjoyed seeing people succeed-perhaps because she had not achieved much in her own career as a journalist and needed to be reminded now and then that success was attainable. Holly had been given an advance copy of the book, Soughing Cypress and Other Poems, when Tom Corvey, the editor of the Press's entertainment section, assigned her to the story. Then it swung to the west and turned north over the ocean, and he could see the sun only as a reflection in the sea below where its blazing image seemed to transform the water into a vast churning mass of magma erupting from beneath the planet's crust. The plane took off to the south, with the merciless glare of the sun at the windows on Jim's side. ![]() "Only in the wilderness am I alive, far from the sights and sounds of civilization, where I can hear the voices of nature in the trees, in the brush, in the lonely ponds, in the dirt." ![]()
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