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Tag: mountains

“The Burial Begins Slow” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Fiction

“The Burial Begins Slow” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

May 23, 2022May 22, 20221

The burial begins slow, carrying up the earth over the barrow for the devils, each in turn highing their breath and turning over the gravel, …

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn
Non-Fiction

“The prison is like a Victorian asylum” by Robin Wyatt Dunn

December 31, 2021December 26, 20211

The prison is like a Victorian asylum, and carefully arranged. The grounds are tastefully laid out, each tree with its own hillock of greeenery and …

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon
Poetry

“thick crusts of midnight in the late Ordovician, a wilderness of morning elsewhere” by Kate Shannon

February 28, 2021March 14, 20211

i.other things live easy, you knowI suppose I, too, live easy in some ways.a domination of oceans gatheringa braying of old bones, dust and then …

“Thin Places” by Steven Croft
Poetry

“Thin Places” by Steven Croft

December 7, 2020December 6, 20200

Through a broad valley of baked brown dirt and sparse green trees,past mudbrick and stone villages of flat-topped houses, we climbthe Humvees up the mountain, …

“Carry Tiger to Mountain” by Morton Milder
Fiction

“Carry Tiger to Mountain” by Morton Milder

October 9, 20200

In the Third Year of great burning, Mo Mo, the Golden Emperor, made a journey to the monastery in which, as a boy, he had …

“The Road to Gold Ridge” by Jennifer Swallow
Fiction

“The Road to Gold Ridge” by Jennifer Swallow

July 13, 2020August 29, 20200

The photos on the website of the Gold Ridge Inn showed a log structure with a wrap-around porch and a hitching post for the horses …

“They” and “The Mountain Where our Bones Showed Through” by Jesse Swire
Poetry

“They” and “The Mountain Where our Bones Showed Through” by Jesse Swire

August 31, 2015December 8, 20231

They Sleek bold bodybound by expectationsby gendered declarationsforced to function in conversationssplit in twain by ‘his’ + ‘her’, no ‘they’ How to navigate this intimate …

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