Spruce & Sagebrush
small stories from a large landscape
Essays & Poems
Short essays and poems born of the southern Rocky Mountains and deserts of the Colorado Plateau
I wait to be warmed encouraged by the mourning doveswho coo the sun to risingand comfort my broken heart. Safe in […]
“The true heart of a place does not come in a week’s vacation. To know it well, as Mary Austin […]
From eighty miles awaythey come separately in the same cartheir strong old tether stretched to the breaking point.One has seventy, […]
Lazing on the warm Dakota Sandstone, we gulped in the spring desert sun like thirsty hikers as we gazed at […]
It was one of the few freezing cold days of winter with lows around zero and highs we hoped would […]
Even the river surrendersdrop by drop to deep winterflows slowly into stillnessas its clear conviction clouds with languor. Sliding by […]
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