Wyoming, Colorado is your future (Poem)
Build your wall now or perish
Tina Morrow
Words delight me, and placed in the right order and spelled correctly, they thrill me.
Creative Writing
Ode to COVID-19 (Poem)
People are dying,
I should take this more seriously.
Christmas Time in the War (Poem)
My father claims Korea’s winters are colder and more brutal than those of Wyoming, the state where he raised me.
Shark Week (Fiction)
And so the question arises, “Who the hell decides to do that with their life?”
Why I’m Reading The Jungle Book With My Kids Rather Than Harry Potter (Essay)
My children are both accelerated readers, but I’d like them to be more than that. I’d like them to be literary.
Sometimes (Poem)
Sometimes I think the apocalypse can’t come soon enough.
Weighing In (Creative Non-Fiction)
Why do the stars insist on the abyss when my heart is also open?
The Coherence of Books and Memory (Essay)
Books are part of my history. They are dropped pins on the map of my memory.
The Last Days of Jack Sweeney (Screenplay)
Sometimes before things can get better, they have to get a lot worse.
Nietzsche's Horse (Poem)
The coachman cracks his whip again.
The mark is left on me as well.
Faithful Wife (Poem)
When youth has slipped from out my grasp
and the march of time turns blonde to gray,
I will still reach for you with the same small hands that held you at thirty.
Lessons in Hunger (Fiction)
One throw, one twist of fate and suddenly you find the world devoid of necessary air — a gas oven.
The Scar (Creative Non-Fiction)
For in time all wounds heal and the scars that bear witness to old injuries often too bear the weight of happy landmarks, reminders of the imperfect nature of a physical form.
The Last Conversation (Poem)
Only now, / while the ground keeps you, / can I say these things.
October Wedding (Poem)
The sun tucked its beauty / so you might shine, / in your white gown on a gray day.
ChildFlower (Poem)
Follow your roots, My Dear. /
At their end you find me.
An Office in the Sky (Journalism)
Alex Rhodes has some words of caution for anyone looking into his line of work, “If you think you’re gonna fall, you should probably just stay on the ground.”
A Time For Celebration: The Muslim Student Association Plans for the End of Ramadan (Journalism)
“I’m so sad it’s almost over,” said Ayah Sasi as she began a planning meeting Monday for the final activities of Ramadan, a month long Muslim holiday.
Worth the Weight (Journalism)
According to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, one in four women in Colorado do not gain enough weight during pregnancy.
