Christmas in a Snowless City
A spiky door garland, creamed with fibersnow and sprayed with pine scent, welcomesa disheveled man who offers to paintmy address on the curb. “So your...
Promise Everything
Promise the skyin all its blue songsin all its grey hopesin all its black whispersswirling with the stars.Promise the oceanin all its deep secretsin all its...
A Love or a Desert
I need a love ora desert or anocean Somethingthat has no realboundaries Likea book of poemsyet to be opened
While I was at War…
My hair started turning white While God took a vacationSupposedlyTo work with Stephen HawkingOn his second law of black hole dynamics Mrs God knewIt was...
Golden Chords, Golden Shovel
It wasn’t ‘til thesummer before senior year we’d poolour talents together. They said we’re just players,which we were, the Sevenof us, each earnest atour...
The Grey Cliff Train Robbery
In 1893 my second cousin, Sam Shermer (he was my grandfather’s brother’s son) along with three other outlaws robbed a train near Big Timber, Montana. A few...
Because the Sub Basement Flooded
Come visit with meas I dig this hole to Chinaor at least to wherethe utility pole crushedour ceramic pipe into sea shell.I dig into fresh earthin search of...
North Window
Sometimes, on cold nights, when new snow peels backthe paper from birch tree bark, you wake from sleep, startled.You cross the chilly room to stand at the...
A Colony of Words
A hustle and bustle can flutter a mind.My odes had meandered, contrary opine.A blockade obdurate of words unrelenting,I longed for pure notes, my poems...
Dance Maker
My dance is only to be felt by the grass and earth.My song heard by only the coyotes at night.To be a witness to the seeds live birth,is a sacred honor, not...
Memories
Memories are nature’s way of remembering life’s events,Trifling, testy touches of tetchy, tiny, torments!Secreted recalls from neglected nooks of our...
Issue 6: Winter 2020
Did you know The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow is celebrating its Twentieth Anniversary in 2020? Well, if you are on our mailing list, I’m sure you are...
Episode 1: Featuring author, Sherri C. Perry
Since opening its doors to writers in 2000, The Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow has made a lasting impact on the arts and literary communities providing...
Dancin’ Ho
She was once a dancing ho. Her criteria for men whose company she kept was not that they be handsome, compatible, or accomplished in the theater of life....
The Photos Not Taken
Beside a river, in the jungles of Peten, Guatemala,Our old International Travelall broke down. I waited while a few men discussed the options. There were...
And The Winner Is …
I’ve had a few revelations in my lifetime, but none so vivid as the very first. It led to the creation of myself as the person I am today, and let’s just say...
Apology
I’m so sorry.No, I’m sorry.Sorry.I am sorry.I’m sorry too.Sorry for that?Yeah, sorry.Sorry, really sorry.No, I’m sorry.Sorry for what?I forgot.I’m so sorry.
star shine
in the search for signs of intelligent life,we are blinded by want of a twinwe measure flux, gunned througha telescope, seeking the sun that comesright at...
Jasmine
Why can’t things you give away, stay given away, Barbara wondered. Isn’t that why you give them away, so you don’t have to see them again? Old clothes move...
Darwin Was Seasick For The Entire 5 Years
On the Beaglein crepuscular lightwearing his human facehe made preparationsfor the epiphanywrapping himselfin the graceof uncertaintyhe kept a kind...