2nd Place Poem – New Mexico Poets
By Thomas Davis Photo by Sid Gillson Mexican red wolves stalk him. The old man stops, listens to silence, sniffs air, then turns, a great rack of horns growing suddenly out of dark hair, his body...
View ArticlePoem – Looking Up
By Dana Letts I looked up the qualities of an Aries: energetic, passionate, pioneering, helpful. Am I this person described on Oracle? I could have added to the list: ungrounded, stubborn,...
View ArticlePoem – Untitled
By Don Hyde Photo by Patricia Largo “What’s the rush?” I say to this lizard scurrying on her path of silt, shade and sunlight. With obligations met and aspirations tendered by a work-a-day shift’s...
View ArticlePoem – Life Is a Gift
Photo by Kari Lorensen By Alicia This is the story my mother told me as she held my hand; Daughter, look far out to the horizon and witness all of gods land. Look further than the ice caps if you...
View ArticlePoem – 7 Ways of Looking at FIRE
By Erin Bulow A flame is a wild weed swaying in the breeze. Smoke is a twirling, whirling dust devil in a field of wheat. An ember is a graceful fire fly in the night sky. The heat is a giant wooly...
View ArticlePoem – Exhale
By Chris Huizinga Photo by Chris Huizinga I am home. The morning sun has crept above the tallest ridge to warm this chilled high point of the Earth. I am awakened from my sleep, I am alive. I step off...
View ArticlePoem – Portraits of You and Me
By Nathan Begay Photo by Barbie Lynch the contours of the sun a marinade for the origins of various color the wood and brush a tip meant to vacate empty canvas held with care your fingers lay strokes...
View ArticlePoem – Abuelita
By Penny Hyde Photo by Michelle Sanchez I don’t understand goddesses like Isis, the giver of life, with her strange headdress, her wings and tight dress. I understand Abuelita, the mother of my mother,...
View ArticlePoem – Auschwitz E. Poland January 27, 1945
By Ethel Davis Photo by Larry Larason Deep January never felt so warm – when the strong arms of the Red Army picked up the skeleton-like people and set them on blankets in the snow. The evil snake had...
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