Somewhere there are dead cats with maggots, whole cities rubbled, and unrepentant youths gunning one other. Blood. Guts. Excrement. Ahem! Assuming your attention, I would like to mention March twenty-five, the Anunciation, Good News to quite a few. And, in case you missed it– yes, I’m talking about your preoccupation with death and damnation– while you were looking for trouble the James Webb telescope, more powerful than the Hubble, launched into space on December twenty-five. And the scientists, our better angels more often than not, imagined a voyage back to the birth of the universe. Yep. Hope. Seriously! Hope! |
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 |