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In a freeway world—
still quiet places
known to the solitudes

"He found me. This single chickadee perched outside my second story window.

Reminder the bird feeder had gone dry—insistence

on the wing."

 

—from Who's Watching Whoo?

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North Shore Reflections

Northwoods wilderness poetry for quiet nights.

A restful companion at

the end of a long

and busy day. 

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From Who's Watching Whoo? 

"Oh world! How rich that we can squander our sight on the road ahead when the shindig carries on beneath our feet." —Wild Flowers

"They occupy the low places, longed for as the first announcement of spring. Broadcasters of a new life

in a weary and forlorn world."

—Merry Gold

About John Bragstad

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"A former canoe guide in the BWCAW and Canada, John knows the outdoors intimately.

In addition, he spent 25 years as a marriage counselor, and he offers sage, safe, common-sense advice on how to maneuver through troubled waters."

Brian Larsen, Cook County News-Herald

"We do not read poetry

to escape life but to enter

it more fully."

From the North Shore of Lake Superior—Nature's Gentle Wisdom

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