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contributors Elizabeth Enslin, Andrea Mason Clark, Bill Babers


Cow Poetry: In the Flat Field


Poetry

by Elizabeth Enslin

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Thank you for sending your cow poems inspired by Nate Ronniger's paintings. I watch their tongues like snails without shells curling around smooth brome They tear and grind tear and grind and circle a mound of composting sod ten feet high A mostly white one with black half moons over each eye breaks from the herd climbs the... Read more


Aspen


Fiction

by Andrea Clark Mason

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"All sorts of different landscapes seem to open whichever way I look." - Vita Sackville West in a letter to Virginia Woolf As soon as I clicked the shutter of my camera, Sharon said, "Pictures are so contrived." Instead, she wanted to stare out at the awe-inspiring vistas and imprint... Read more


Cow Poetry: Watkins Flat


Poetry

by Bill Babers

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Twenty five miles of wash board dust plume  gravel road  from the highway around one last curve  before old growth pines give way to  five square miles of sagebrush edges blurred by  undulating heat waves  that on this sultry  September afternoon seems to be  the bovine version of Times Square lowing cattle mimic  blaring taxi horns brown and black steers  like business... Read more


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