Fiction & Poetry
Original poems and fictional tales inspired by nature, nostalgia, and rural life. Often whimsical, always grounded, these works speak in fable, rhyme, or imagination.
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Clint Dimbrel’s Window of Opportunity
Clint Dimbrel wasn’t the kind of man you’d call refined. Unless you were talking about moonshine, cheap motor oil, or the stories he’d polish up after a few drinks and a long sit…
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By the Quiet Stream
Beneath the sky of tender hue,Where grasses green and clover grew,Two gentle kine in silence stay,And drink the peace at close of day. The brooklet murmurs soft and low,Its silver threads through sedges…
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The Heron Who Thought he was Grand
In a fern-fringed bog near a trickling stream,Where the cattails danced in an artist’s dream,Lived a heron so tall with a neck so proud,He’d bow to his shadow and wink at a cloud.…
