MICHELLE CURRY WRIGHT

Category: 2012

  • Tall Grasses Meditation

    Telluride Daily Planet, Sunday, October 7, 2012 Lie outside in a field of tall autumnal grass anywhere you can find one – or in the grasses of your mind’s eye. Dip yourself down into the pale yellow almost white stalk color that pits itself so perfectly against the blue-gray of a blustery October sky. You…

  • Elegy

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 16, 2012 Dear Tooth Fairy, I’m going the public route with this letter — since I doubt you’d think to look for one under my pillow — even if I had a tooth to include with it. I’ll say right up front, though, that I tend to see your mission…

  • Drive-in delirium

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, September 2, 2012 My father, a ramrod army man, says No to me so many times growing up that at some point each time, I simply stop asking. I stop asking to be a patrol in elementary school, which is something I want so bad I dream the wood handle is…

  • Rapt, wrapped, rapped

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 19, 2012 The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is…

  • How to capture a woman (with or without a butterfly net)

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, August 5, 2012 First of all forget everything you thought you knew about women. When you and your friend were talking in a bar last night, and you told him you that you were sick of trying to figure women out and that if they couldn’t like you for exactly who…

  • Heat, love, and lies, Pt. 2 (Obsession)

    Telluride Daily Planet Sunday, July 22, 2012 The other thing that happens in D.C. the summer of my 20th year — in addition to losing 1) my heart and 2) my faith in the system — is that the East Coast parents of a sophomore who has been stalking me (there is no better word)…