Author Archives: Greg Wright

A Shell of a Life

for my Guinevere The beach is littered with a thousand shards hints of pink and purple wave upon wave of white

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The Dingy Song

or, Meet Me in St. Diego Ding ding ding rang the dinghyWell, not really the dinghyBut the bell on the dinghy

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Fall and Winter

The carcass of a doe has lain for weeks in a graveled ditch on Twin Lakes road. The lower half is gone but the upper torso rears back its head in rigored anguish.

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This Story Might Be True

an Israeli and a Palestinian walk into a bar together

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You Be the Judge

September. Court is in session again, a darkness on the edge of our town. Winthrop’s vultures have returned to their perches in the forked snag.

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A Brief History

On a hillside above Twin Lakes Road a hand-painted sign beside a rugged cross reads, “In loving memory of Josh and Rachel— you will be in our hearts always.”

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Whitehall, Montana

Population: Obstinate In the family of gateway towns north of Yellowstone National Park Whitehall rightly self-identifies as the neglected youngest brother.

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I Know There Is a Purpose

The bearded seal suns on a floe while a polar bear stalks it nearby Biologists say it can smell its prey up to twenty miles distant

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Vocabracadabra

“The female       is like             a deformity                   of the male.” ~Aristotle What sleight of manguage did not morph cow to fe-bull,

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contraDiction

choosing allofthewords is not poesy

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