Remember that the automatic door
to the department store opens before you, polite as a doorman at the Ritz. Remember, when you descend the escalator at the airport, to stand up straight for god’s sake! Don’t you dare think you’re so small you might slide through the slit between the stair and the floor. By the way, those pockets stuffed with grievances weigh you down. So does your shortsighted frown. Listen to me. Laughter sets you free. |
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 |