49ers! our anniversary
I wrote this poem a few years ago recalling a ridgetop above Somerset, at the end of a little dirt road where Hatch built a...
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SOMERSET SUNSET
Hatch Graham & Judy Taylor Graham
Welcome to Somerset Sunset, adventures with our search & rescue dogs and Taylor Graham's poetry
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Outside the courthouse
from Black History Month hosted by Black Lives Matter El Dorado County and Poetry of the Sierra Foothills, an Art & Poetry event (Feb....
Lecturer, novelist, playwright, historian, escaped slave
A poem for today’s Black History Month art & poetry event in front of Placerville Courthouse: Master, Slave for William Wells Brown in...
Disconnects
Our WiFi’s been on-and-off here in the Sierra foothills because of the terrible weather in Texas. Reminds me of when we lived at snowline...
A Valentine's poem
Searching my computer for Valentine/Día del Amor y la Amistad poems, I came across this – from so many years ago, I’d forgotten it and...
A poem for lost boys
Arrests in the death of 11-year-old Roman Lopez bring back a poem from the late 1970s when we searched for missing boys later found...
Cause for celebration
We’ve finally got our first Covid-19 vaccination scheduled! Here’s a poem (a pantoum) from last April, in lockdown, recalling past...
The prompt was "write an office poem"
This Is My Office I’m up before first light, let the dogs out into the dark wild and listen for Screech Owl whispering her soft falling...
Poetry collections by Taylor Graham
Windows of Time and Place: Poems of El Dorado County Cold River Press, 110 pp, Grass Valley, CA (coldriverpress.org) 2019 Laureate Trail...
Poetry on Somerset Sunset
This blog carries on our now-defunct website, SomersetSunset.net, posting information on (Judy) Taylor Graham’s poetry. Her bio in the...
Our heroes and partners
Here’s a list of our Shepherds we've trained over the years to find people, with their years of SAR training & service, and dates of...
Poem for a young dog
Empty Sidewalks on a line by Galway Kinnell Everything flowers, from within, of self- blessing, the poet said. And so my puppy leads me...
Our training partners (2)
Loki (Kuskokwim Loki von Goeman CGC) came to us at 4 months, super-high energy unchecked. In spite of obedience classes, her aim is to...
Poem for an old dog
Inhale the Sky for Cowboy My dog’s tracking our quarry -- across grass to tennis courts, along the shady treeline. Then whoop! He cuts...
Our training partners (1)
Hatch and I stopped responding to searches years ago, but we still keep up with weekly training, laying trails and otherwise helping...
Where can I find stuff in this blog?
Here are SAR Dog articles grouped under topics: [dates indicate when each has been posted to this blog] GENERAL Intro to our SAR Dog...
Handler's perspective (a poem by Taylor Graham)
Oakland after Fire Tonight we're climbing the backside of these familiar hills hunched against the slant of moonbeams. At the crest we...
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