Columbia Gorge Dance Card Even the noble pine cannot resist the wind’s advances. With uneven breath, he curls along her stoic spine, refusing no for an answer. No question he’s notorious in dance circles on the Columbia. Milonga campera—titillating tango: Gorge wind leads, faithless fir cuts in—follows. A sea of lithe, green lines. Gusty tempo and her branches sway, sashay until spiked cones slip off like lusty stilettos. The ardor […]
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Joe Cottonwood | If wood is a woman
If wood is a woman this plank is Marilyn Monroe. Carpenters lust, none can master voluptuous curves of grain. Sandpaper roughens. Sawdust smells of musk. From simple sapling of unforgiving forest, seizing daylight she grew to glory. Soft wood, stained blonde, absorbed too much. The cabinetmaker looks pathetic. Passing hand to hand, shop to shop, in her presence all others are shabby. Lacquer shields her as if behind glass, a […]
Laura Grace Weldon | Poems of her own
Jo-Ann Fabric Store Employees Dorothy was the oldest, over 70, Ann almost that, then Marge, mother of four, on down in age to me in college. Our hands constantly lifting, measuring, smoothing oceans of fabric rolled from bolts, rending them with scissors that sailed. As we did we talked, voices singing of possibilities to customers, singing of our lives to one another, straining as we carried boxes and bent to […]
Lisa Rhodes-Ryabchich | The dream
My Auntie Betty came to me in a dream dressed in a long black unsightly dress reaching the ground, with a black lace veil covering her despondent face. She wore long black gloves, and black rosary beads hung around her neck. She was walking around Rockland Cemetery’s front lawn, asking for forgiveness. I saw tears hiding over a young girl’s face. She had not aged in death. Why had I […]
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