Author Archives: Greg Wright

After Jedediah Smith, 1827 Are you surprised to discover that mountain men know what the various marks of punctuation mean and can string a few words together, properly spelt?

For the sixth time you asked if we knew how you fell in love with your husband but you had no problem, oddly, recalling how to win a game of Five Crowns.

after James Clyman January 1 Cloudy and warm in fact a coat has been but little needed this winter

Hugh Glass lay in a shallow grave as much to keep his body warm as quicken interment of his corpse—

after a performance by Awadagin Pratt He is a left-handed player in a right-handed world reading charts, away from left and toward the right, underscored by right-brained, right-handed composers. Even the baton which conducts is clutched in the right.

Curious is the fact that a sleeping being is altogether aware yet elects to ignore the waking world

those who vow to never forget The Trail of Tears Antietam Sharpsburg Sand Creek The Little Bighorn

(With No Apologies to Ed McCurdy, nor to Pete Seeger, nor Simon and Garfunkle, &c.) Last night I had the strangest dream      I ever dreamed before I dreamed the world had all agreed      to put an end to war

Say it, man. Spell it out. Admit That your calculate words, woven Under and about this captive Doting audience have multiplied—

Study but solely me; play The part that binds you Until you must capitulate, Dreams to be relinquished,