The Pine Divide

The Pine Divide

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The Quiet Month
The last days, the last flights, the last chances
Apr 16, 2025 • John Coffman
bare feet in the yard grass
a poem
Aug 28, 2024 • John Coffman
Uninterrupted Expanse
Shrub-grasslands, nostalgia and the timelessness of fatherhood
Aug 20, 2024 • John Coffman
Prairie Sage
Several hundred Greater Sage-Grouse flush wild, just over the ridge where the snow drifts deep across the road in late-winter.
Aug 14, 2024 • John Coffman
Rites and Reverence
A Personal search for Redemption
Aug 7, 2024 • John Coffman
Creosote and Sagebrush
We ran from the edge of the Chihuahuan desert, and I had to borrow money to move for a ranch job in Wyoming.
Jul 31, 2024 • John Coffman
The Killdeer and the Mourning Dove
A mourning dove flew across the highway, flared its diamond tail down, and landed on the top wire of a barbed fence.
Jul 24, 2024 • John Coffman
The Pine Divide
The Pine Divide
Land mingles with lessons of the wild, dogs, birds, and the art of falconry. Essays to understand the virtues that flow through us like a river.
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