A creative nonfiction travelogue Despite the long highway up towards Tortilla Flat, the trip only starts when our car gets past Lost Dutchman, the state park. From that point north, there’s no illusion about exactly how wide the dirt Apache Trail is or how steep its drops are. Fifteen hundred feet from the top to the water. It’s a busy, early spring weekend. Two-car traffic is horrid and slow on a one-and-a-half-car road that bends one way, then the other, hugging the cliffsi

This poem is about bird-watching some turkeys with my grandmother one winter. It's a peaceful memory to go back to. So I'm sharing it with you. Draft 1 Outside my grandmother’s room in comical proximity to a bird feeder far too small for meaningful pecking A summons through the window: See the turkeys? The clock skips past the minute We are all bird-watchers We are sure of the uselessness of the searching turkeys There are no loose seeds The grass is too well kept and will fa

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