I am doing my best to stay away from the neurotic, the lazy, and the just plain crazy as they come in a cloud (that cloud) of indignation, frustration, paranoia, and just plain panic, wearing angry red stripes or a self-righteous blue. I am doing my best to fight the dread of human touch--a squeeze, or a hug, a pat on the shoulder. Signs of affection send me in the opposite direction. I closed the door, took up the welcome mat. I’m in hibernation, waiting for vaccination. That’s that. |
AuthorNancy Harris McLelland taught creative writing, composition, and literature for over twenty years and Conducted writing workshops for the Western Folklife Center, Great Basin College , and the Great Basin Writing Project . An Elko County native with a background in ranching. McLelland has presented her "Poems from Tuscarora" Both at daytime and evening events at the Cowboy Poetry Gathering in Elko. Her essay, "Border Lands: Cowboy Poetry and the Literary Canon" is in the anthology Cowboy Poetry Matters . Categories |