Summer range burning ducks on Wildhorse reservoir flying south through smoke

1. If I were deaf I would watch the motion of branches and think the trees nod “yes” to some delightful question. If I were deaf I would...

They say we come into this world afraid of snakes no matter whether venomous or not.  Avoidance is the way we’re made, although this...

Before you play the wounded bird think of the charadrius vociferus commonly known as the killdeer. Because she builds her nest in...

You are standing alone in the doorway as they back out of the driveway, everyone waving except the driver who needs to think about where...

I close my eyes you in a skiff facing seaward me at water’s edge holding the bow line I let go eyes open you bobbing in the slip a...

“Thank God for hollyhocks,” the ranch wife said as she stood by the side of her truck. “They go untended, not like everything else around...

Virga is a...shaft of precipitation...that evaporates before reaching the ground...making the clouds appear to have a comma attached.” ...

That shimmering profusion of white and green-- an illusion creating confusion in one new to the scene. Rue the newbie who brought a...

Yesterday—the dog and I on the long stretch between Winnemucca and  Lovelock-- I fell asleep.  Felt my head nod and bob… Awake!--  a...

Between me and the clothesline-- a bull snake whose  blotches blend with wet dirt and dead leaves. No hiss or fake rattlesnake coil,...

“Now we are having beautiful warm windless weather that is very beneficial to me. The sun, a light that for lack of a better word I can...

The rat-a-tat yap has finally stopped. What set off her terrier alarm? A neighbor who would do me harm? And when I head home late and get...

What if the one-legged tenant in the upstairs apartment  drops his boot with a thump and there you are staring  at the ceiling, waiting,...

Each morning I mourn my reflection by asking a metaphysical question: Who is this  woman watching me wash a crumpled face and brush...

You open the bedroom curtain and it’s hallelujah outside. The ordinary patio gold-leaved, all the trees lit from within. You wonder if...

Over the loudspeaker, “Christmas party radiology conference room at noon.” We chipped in for cold cuts, brought goodies-- cheese and...

​Driving to Elko on a winter day storm clouds stacked from Lone Mountain to the Rubies. Jesus rays in all directions. Even the lonely...

Remember that the automatic door  to the department store opens before  you,  polite as a doorman at the Ritz. Remember, when you descend...

Today I rearranged the fake flowers. ​I placed the fake grape hyacinths on the fireplace mantel, put the fake spring bouquet on a table...