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Water Mask (The Alaska Literary Series)
In Water Mask, Monica Devine skis woodland trails with her baby on her back, navigates sea ice with Beaufort Sea whalers and whirls two thousand feet above the tundra with a rookie bush pilot. She negotiates the death of her father, and the near loss of her family's cabin on the Copper River. Reflections on family, place, memory, work, perception and art are woven into a seductive tapestry...in a land that both beguiles and rejects.
Under a Lake Superior Sun
On a quiet county road a woman sells vegetables and red elderberry jam She rolls down her awning as lightening splits the sky and rain pounds down in sheets. Logging ...
Read More Ravens, a poem
Ravens The sky is sharp today, Mother The trees wave wildly in the wind but there are no clouds in the sky to push around. I thought I ...
Read More Let Them Drink Coke
Like so many indigenous peoples around the world who have historically been exploited, forced off their land and exterminated, this story is especially compelling for the century we live in. ...
Read More Who Knows What’s Good or Bad?
The situation we always live in is like that of the wise Chinese farmer whose best horse ran off one day. His neighbor came over to console him. “Oh, too ...
Read More Have You Ever Tried?
Have You Ever Tried to Enter the Long Black Branches by Mary Oliver Have you ever tried to enter the long black branches of other lives--- tried to imagine ...
Read More By Way of the Horse
At the age of 52, with no prior interest in horses, I propelled myself into the local horse world with over-the-top enthusiasm. This was several plus years ago and at ...
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