One project I’ve been working on for awhile is a memoir put together as poetry vignettes. Most of us are not famous, but we all have a story to tell. Each of our lives is a different tale in the myriad stories of the lives lived by each and every individual from the beginning of the world’s […]
Read MoreI used to use this exercise with my students sometimes to get them writing. This was my example: The Safest Place When I was growing up, the place I used to feel the safest was in this little camper trailer in the back yard of our house on Neal Street in Socorro. Our house […]
Read MorePrairie Fire on the Llano The summer of drought brought the summer of prairie fires. Onestretched to sixty-three miles of flaming yellow-red teeth consuming dry grass, leaving scraggly black fingers of mesquite, advancing smoke billowing from a distance like God stirring floor sweepings with a giant prairie broom Jake clears a firebreak with the […]
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