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 […]
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For My Senior Valentine By Deborah Holt WilliamsGlenwood Springs So many ways to say “I love you” now that we’re old and grey. Will you help me find my glasses? Did you take your pills today? We go to appointments together. Stay with me forever, please. Got your hearing aids? “My WHAT?” Hey look! I […]