Excerpt #4By Golda Wolfe All rights reserved by the author. The simplest explanation for why Baron von Lingenhoven felt tired every morning was that he did not sleep well. His ex-partner Buzz White was so enthralled by Vail’s skiing that he had forgotten to mention the traffic grinding day and night along the interstate that […]
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The Messenger …
By Rosemary BurkholderFebruary 2023 While working at my computer, movementon the ridge across the valley caught my eye.Without my glassesI could tell it was a big bird.The sky overcast the light flatthe terrain a composition in black and white withgenerous amounts of snowblanketing the earth.From the window, being nakedwithout my glassesI […]
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‘April is the cruelest month …’
This is an excerpt from an essay written by Pat Noel about the explosion in the Dutch Creek No. 1 Mine in Coal Basin on April 15, 1981. The full essay can be found in the late Stan K. Badett’s book “Digging in the Dark,” a copy of which was recently brought into The Sopris […]
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A dog’s storyBy Tom MercerCarbondale-ish It was a rainy August morning when Alan first heard the scratching on his front door. Initially, Alan simply ignored the sound, assuming it was a tree branch that had broken off of the tree in his front yard. But for a half-hour the sound persisted, so Alan stood up […]
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A GOOD BYE-LINE
To: Raleigh BurleighFrom: JB The Sun is settingOn our editor, Raleigh.And he’s not just leavingTo go get a tamale. He’s leaving our town,And The Sopris Sun,To explore what’s out there …He’s had such a great run! The Sun won’t shine nearly as bright,Without you as our chief;It just doesn’t seem right.It’s been several yearsWith you […]
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There will come a timeBy Nancy Bo FloodFour Mile When our grandchildren will sit In their eighth-grade social science class And yawn. So today we must tell them our story That once there was a time When we nearly lost this democracy. Who saved it? You.
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Valley Strong
By Sophia Jackson Raging Grannies of Carbondale T he Raging Grannies of Carbondale, a local chapter of a nationwide movement that protests through music, sang an original song to the tune of John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads” during the Feb. 5 Garfield County Planning Commission hearing on the Harvest Village (formerly Harvest Roaring […]
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I’sBy Daniel SpillerGlenwood Springs I is blue of the mundane what a brushstroke wouldn’t paint. I is wanting to be great only for my father’s sake. I is trying for words that won’t leave my brain. I is incomplete an easel ridden portrait.
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Soul Glimmers: Crossing Borders with the HeartMaira HernándezGlenwood Springs This poem has been translated from Spanish. I arrived in a strange place,with streets that spokeanother language,with faces that did not recognize my story,and with a sky largerthan any dreamI had ever had. Loneliness wrapped its armstightly around me,fear bit into every step,and the cold of […]