by Cheryl Unruh | Apr 17, 2020 | Poetry
GIN & TONIC The holy man is an equation: reverence plus self-control equals what? purity? heaven? It equals something, surely. As he sits on the barstool to my right, I happen to be on an inhalation – His robe smells like celery. And a bit like my...
by Cheryl Unruh | Apr 16, 2020 | Poetry
A JOURNEY OF NO DISTANCE A vacuum of chatter A detachment of friends A tavern of echoes A grocery store of disappointment A temperature of fate A fever of connection Streets of abandon A round globe of loneliness A pneumonia of worry A panic of...
by Cheryl Unruh | Mar 3, 2020 | Essays, Everyday Life
Dawn Chorus I was surprised to hear them: birds. It was February still. Late February. But in the darkness before sunrise, birds sang me awake. How could I have forgotten about morning birds? After a long winter with maybe a dozen smallish winter storms, and months...
by Cheryl Unruh | Apr 3, 2019 | Author Interviews
Michael D. Graves has written three books, all published by Meadowlark Books of Emporia, Kansas: Green Bike (with co-authors Kevin Rabas and Tracy Million Simmons) was published in 2014, To Leave a Shadow in 2015 (a 2016 Kansas Notable Book), and Shadow of Death in...
by Cheryl Unruh | Mar 19, 2019 | Author Interviews
Roy Beckemeyer is one of those people who makes you feel comfortable in his presence. He’s a poet, a retired aerospace engineer, a man who loves the arts. He wields an incredible vocabulary. He’s a kind human being, a gentleman. He’s been Poet of the...
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