MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Top Dog, Badger, Bluebird and the sneeze

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, July 7, 2013 Once upon a time in July, in a valley nearly identical to this one, Prairie Top Dog sat balanced on his hind legs, spine straight, ears pricked up, darting eyes surveying things — notably the impressive number of dome and rim craters he and his fellow dogs had recently…

July 7, 2013
Hooked on Mnemonics

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 23, 2013 Her name is Gloria. But I’m so preoccupied with the freckle above her lip, I only grasp her name for a half second, the length of real-time it takes three syllables to get lost in the serpentine chutes of my ear canals instead of arriving at the consecrated…

June 23, 2013
Coyote, Auntie Fox, and the Camelback

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, June 9, 2013 Once upon a time, in a valley almost identical to this one, there lived a coyote, a resplendent specimen of shiny silver fur and long slender feet. Coyote happened to have an aunt in retail, a small but bossy red fox who liked to nag him about fine…

June 9, 2013
Tryptophanatic

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 31, 2013 Shortly after my father is fired from Boeing in the early ‘70s along with half the rest of the workforce, he decides not to go back to work but stay at home instead, much to my mother’s great and lip-pursing chagrin. It’s a big enough house not to…

April 1, 2013
Dear Cat (from Hell)

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 17, 2013 It’s nearly spring, my love. You are making snorfing sounds as you eat a dinner I made by hand, with chicken livers and turkey, oatmeal and carrots. A dinner the pressure-cooked steam of which requires the house to be aired out a bit, windows opened, candles burned. A…

March 18, 2013
Annotations of a life wish (from the poem by Nadine Stair)

Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, March 3, 2013 If I had my life to live over (which I do, really, every time I roll out of bed onto a new day, every time I open a door, a portal, or even the tiny box on my dining room table I keep absolutely nothing in, every time…

March 4, 2013

2013, Captivated, Us and Them