For over four years I worked at a newspaper in Tooele County, a rural desert county in Utah. I had a coworker once say the county is a collection of almosts—it could be almost a fantastic hiking ... [+]
Mountain Nose: International Voluntary Services/VN, ’68-’69, II-III Corps, as orphanage shop instructor, supply delivery, and recon. Member Poets West Society. "Mid-American Back Roads" is in Short Circuit #08, Short Édition's quarterly review.
Flocks in flight, Murmurations Of rippling ribbons Against rain-full skies Above the stubble fields Of slump-shouldered towns Where restaurant dining Is fries in paper bags And shopping consists Of convenience store trips. There, the main allure, Aladdin's magic lamp, Is the Interstate sign Pointing the way out.