Three Bodies of Water: Orcas Island By Ellen Graham Cascade Lake For reasons I don’t quite understand, in June I need to sit and watch Cascade Lake wake up. Foxglove and monkey flower and one lone red poppy. Breeze and wind and whispers of wind and barely wind and insect wing wind. Goose […]
Moonlight On the Curve Of A Dolphin BY ELLEN GRAHAM I’m sorry that I drank so much I fell and hit the back of my head, cerise blooming on the floor and the bed and the flowery sheets. My nightshirt and the newspaper I slipped on. I lied to the ER nurse and said […]
Car Hike BY ELLEN GRAHAM The last time I was in Bozeman there were mountains and I was cold and Cynthia and I ate peyote and experienced Death. We ate malted milk balls but they tasted like pizza. She had a little room with a trunk and wiry-haired dog and played music by […]
Canyonlands, A Boy and A Hit of Acid by Ellen Graham I was introduced to Canyonlands at 23 by a boy and a hit of acid. In the ancient times of 1978 I lived in the Avenues in Salt Lake City. Before cell phones boys would simply come over and knock on your door […]
Three Blue Dresses by Ellen Graham Number One 1965 My first blue dress came all the way from DuQuoin, Illinois to Salt Lake City, Utah. Grandma Lehn lives in DuQuoin and we don’t see her much. She is rich and she is distant. She sends things. The dress is the color of the asters […]
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