{"id":1765,"date":"2025-05-08T10:45:52","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:45:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/?p=1765"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:45:52","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:45:52","slug":"blueflower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sagebrushreview.org\/wordpress\/2025\/05\/blueflower\/","title":{"rendered":"Blueflower"},"content":{"rendered":"

The canal began unwinding in 1905, wood flume\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

twelve feet wide. I\u2019d like to rename you, a more\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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rarefied name worthy of your rills and curves.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The wildflowers that claim your banks, that paddle\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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the breeze, dance near your shallows \u2013 I love\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

those tiny blue ones, thimblefuls of petals\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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not even long as an eyelash. What\u2019s their name?<\/span><\/p>\n

When I find it, I will call you that, and not\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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your sure-footed given name, Central Oregon\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Canal. Where I grew up they named new schools\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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for pioneers with quaint histories, why not canals?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a new school going up just south<\/span><\/p>\n

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of your slopes, Caldera High, <\/span>Caldera <\/span><\/i>Spanish\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

for cauldron, a remnant of volcanic events, symbol\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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of the burgeoning transformations of youth. Caldera\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

already has a football field for the whirling pom-poms\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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of flirting teens. Why not honor your origins<\/span><\/p>\n

with the wide straw hat of someone who first\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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conceived of your tresses, 27 miles of laterals<\/span><\/p>\n

now flowing from the Deschutes? William Arnold.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A boy\u2019s idea, a man\u2019s wet dream. His imagination\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

could soak the dusty ground of bean plants,<\/span><\/p>\n

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make them rise like Jack and the Beanstalk.<\/span><\/p>\n

We could call you <\/span>The Billy Canal.<\/span><\/i> But I confess\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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to favoring your misty fragrance. Blueflower, spill\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

your name. Ah! <\/span>Fairy Thimbles!<\/span><\/i> Now dusk can tuck\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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its shawl about your whispering nubile stems.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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