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April 12, 2024A poem is an equation written on the wind,riding on memory from one seer to the next,ancient as the spoken word. I can see the…
Reflections on Life and Death
December 19, 2023LIFE AND DEATH Nature relaxes by herself in a magical land of her own. A human lays with her in a meadow on a mountain.…
Compass Check
November 5, 2023My brother and I grew up in a military family. We knew the names of the battles depicted in Band of Brothers, Black Hawk Down,…
A Life Well Lived
September 7, 2023Lt. Col. Scott Defebaugh (1923-2022) was a WWII Veteran I met while visiting the retirement home where my parents live. Over a series of interviews…
Big Mountain
July 17, 2023"The Unseen Beast" She sits atop a tree that lives on The Mountain, watching for anything that might sound good to eat. Her fluffy gray…
Fire and Wind
May 22, 2023Once I was his indentured servant, not his beloved son; he used to bark his demands like a drill sergeant…
Narcissism: Life in a Snow Globe
May 19, 2023In recent years I’ve been dealing with a narcissist in my life. I think most people know at least one…
The Great Nagurski’s Blocking Guard
March 30, 2023Alec Bobedash, the great Nagurski’sblocking guard, stands at the sternbent to raise the outboard motorover the sandy bottom ferns.The channel…
Seeing the World
March 24, 20232017 Interview by Lucy Bell with WWII Veteran, Joe Morgan, Colorado Springs, CO Joseph Morgan Born June 8, 1926, Died…
Three Little Words
March 21, 2023Starting with my dad, people have been telling me to Stand Up Straight all my life. He told me. The…
The Other Way from You
March 21, 2023I’d been told that some former Colorado Springs poets laureate were going to read at the old Knights of Columbus…
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