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Dog Grrl!
by
Thomas James Allen
  1. What Once Was Easy
  2. Moss Upon the Brick 1
  3. The Alchemist
  4. My Personal Ecology
  5. Stopping in the Evening by a Snowy Woods
  6. Moss Upon the Brick 2
  7. The Magic Forest
  8. The Poet's Prayer
  9. A Christmas Visitor
  10. Daddy Longlegs
  11. The Philosopher's Lament
  12. Moss Upon the Brick 3
  13. Ol' Sin Nombre
  14. The Alchemist's Shop
  15. Ol' Gran'mama's Stew
  16. The TA's Lament
  17. Transylvania Square
  18. Tremble
  19. Christmas Miracles
  20. Going Home to Mechanicsville
  21. Moss Upon the Brick 4
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Still Minor

Ol' Sin Nombre

From the deer mice, not mosquitoes,
Hantavirus' victims fall,
When the rodents' small excreta
Fills the air as aerosol;
Coughing, wheezing, chills and fever,
HPS has cast its pall,
I can't breathe in, my lungs, edema,
Ol' Sin Nombre's come to call.










Notes:
Written 04-23-2000.

HPS is Hantavirus Pulmonary Syndrome, sometimes caused by the Sin Nombre virus. The Sin Nombre virus is shed by the common deer mouse in its feces, which accumulate, dry, take to the air and become inhaled, where the virus causes deadly lung infections. The disease is endemic to the American Southwest, north of Mexico's Sin Nombre mountains. Thanks, ProMED-mail!


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