OUR CATEGORY : J. S. MacLean

Faces in the Clouds

I recollect a couple’s slide show of clouds. They pointed out faces, no profiles but varied frontals peering out. Not the everyday storm silhouettes or Jesus lookalikes; my nape hair quilled when I perceived these integrated and finely detailed air etchings. I know we can conjure the human face from chaos. Curiosity shapes the skeptic. […]

Sundown Rides in an Evening Sky

They mosey ’round the tipi rings up onto Longview Hummock. Comanche Champ III low-sets his head as is his wont these days. The grizzled rider squints towards the south and thoughts of Texas, the Goodnight Loving Trail, Wyoming, Montana, Whoop-Up, and Johnny Ware’s Bar U drift over him like smoke and dust and rain. Beyond […]