Defenders
Defenders 2026 “Defenders of the short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things sometimes seek to champion them by saying the ‘the game...
North To Ganado
North To Ganado 2026 North to Ganado they rode, top down through hot wind. Above them spread an uncertain sky. Below, the Navajo Aquifer which supplies the town’s water. Outside of town on the Navajo Nation there’s no water piped into many remote homes. Families...
Zero Inches
Zero Inches 2026 Zero inches, that’s the official depth of the snowpack on most of the western slopes of the Rocky Mountains right now. Scientists who monitor the National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center have seen the last of this past winter’s snow melt...
Torrid
Torrid 2025
Toucan
Toucan 2025
Tympani
Tympani 2025
Tumble
Tumble 2025 Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night long Well, I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night long Well, I woke up this mornin', didn't know right from wrong. -Hambone Willie Newbern 1929
Tuba
Tuba 2025
Tryst
Tryst 2025
When The Feds Drop The Hammer
When the feds stroll in and drop the hammer on Upper and Lower Basin Colorado River State negotiators who can’t agree on what to do about the river’s precarious plumbing… What should we expect? Current water management rules expire in October 2026. The Bureau of...
Temple
Temple 2025
Parched
Parched 2026 Cracked and split, a fragile land laced with scars and grooves. The west slope of the Rockies is parched. Spring has revealed the lightest snowpack in Colorado since scientists began taking measurements 41 years ago. Following another dry winter, the melt...
Interstate 40
Interstate 40 2026 You are our song. I hear your rhythms and I’m pulled in deep. Diesel downbeats, lithium ion battery backbeats, cylinder strings strumming, drive tires whining, harmonies happening all at once, hammered into a soundtrack that never turns off. You...
Tumult
Tumult 2025 You pay a guy a bribe who gets you what you want, he’s bought and paid for. Then he gets caught and serves time. And after that, when he’s down and out, sicker each passing day and fading slow, when his wealth is drained away to pay the lawyers, you...
The Scoundrel
The Scoundrel 2025 No scoundrel can be of the highest order. He is doomed to the lowest order, stuck in shadows and stench, the sweet dark sludge of dirty money, forever lodged in a foul and unforgiving hell. This is where Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall lived...
Antigone
Antigone 2025 Antigone sashayed through TSA security and stopped at the bar for a Boulevardier. Her father, Oedipus and her mother, Jocasta got up from their table and joined her.
Liberty
Liberty 2026 Engraved on a plaque of bronze in the Statue of Liberty Museum are a few lines of a sonnet, “The New Colossus,” written by Emma Lazarus. Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming...
Tenor
Tenor 2025 When he coughed up his lies he fell to the ground and began to howl.
