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

All the Open Spaces

Today the rain came like it finally heard me calling into the smoke dusty sky asking, begging for a break for […]

Habit of Days

It’s like Spring is trying to make a habit of sunny days, stringing them together to touch summer.Even the geese are […]

The Right Fight

There is a time-stopping ethereal beauty to some January days in the mountains. You wake to peaks covered in untracked […]

Out of a World

Out of a world perfect for peoplea dream incarnate,with clear running streams forever forests, fertile fields,and fresh, fresh water, We made […]

The Wild Inside

A lone bald eagle stands at the muddy edge of the cold winter Colorado River, white head gleaming against the […]

220 Miles

The space station orbits just 220 miles above Earth’s surface where gravity is 90%. The space station is in freefallmoving sideways at […]

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