Editor’s note: Happy Mothers’ Day. Poet/author David Feela sums up with the following tribute. His point: It is not necessarily about having it all. It is about doing it all, seamlessly and without fanfare. A mother’s gallery of quotidian moments is rich with fine art. The Road Near Two Grey Hills A Navajo woman knows…
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore and is up for a Colorado Book Award. After riding for 25 years atop my…
Editor’s Note: Well, the reviews are in. Apparently “The Hunger Games” is not from hunger. Au contraire. It appears the action-adventure epic marks the launch of the heir apparent to the Harry Potter phenomenon.”We have a winner! ‘The Hunger Games’ has…yearning romance and suspense that won’t quit,” raves Rolling Stone. What poet/author/teacher David Feela has…
Editor’s note: Author/poet/recently retired teacher-writing instructor David Feela is a regular contributor to Telluride Inside… and Out. His latest book, “How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes from the Four Corners,” a collection of essays, is available at Between the Covers Bookstore. Here below, about spring, from “How Delicate These Arches.” A spring thing The Geyser Springs…
A Green Rain The rain itself is not green but it falls for hours, soft and penetrating like a massage for sore earth muscles. I am not out in the yard but standing beside a window, hands deep in my pockets watching gray winter turn…
Editor’s Note: David Feela is a Colorado poet who resides in Arriola, Colorado, a small rural community north of Cortez. Recently retired from a 27-year teaching gig, David was a former “Colorado Voice” for the Denver Post. He worked for over a decade as a contributing editor and columnist at Inside/Outside Southwest magazine and now…
Editor’s note: We received this from one of our favorite poet/authors and regular contributors, David Feela, only minutes after Jennifer Hudson sang her tribute – “I Will Always Love You” – to Whitney Houston at the Grammys. David’s tribute, his Valentine if you will, to the great pop diva was originally published in “The New…
Shadows Heard, Not Seen Sun or shade, the groundhog wakes wide-eyed from a state of hibernation as early as January, rolls over in its burrow and listens to the dark sounds overhead. A fox stalks a pheasant through brush, two deer flinch at the wind knocking snow loose from a limb and the owl’s head…
Pentimento The pond will not decide if it’s solid or liquid. Some mornings a palette of ice stipples the sunrise. Some evenings the wind stirs the surface with brushstrokes. It’s a composition in flux, counterpointed by three ducks with their rumps sticking out the water. Share
The Year in Preview Next year will be different: suicide bombers will be kinder, senseless shooters more considerate, the banks less greedy. Congress will get to work legislating America’s confidence and hangovers from drunken holidays will be covered by Medicare. European debt will melt like polar ice and dead movie stars will come back to…
