Browsing through a book the other morning called Backcountry: Contemporary Writing in West Virginia, I came across some poems that blew me away. (Eight in the morning is a great time for poetry.)The poet is Timothy Russell; his bio said he is a retired steelworker who now lives in Ohio. I wanted to put one of the poems on this site; I decided to sneak a few lines in and put a couple of links instead.

In Dubio

Smoke plumes coil in the valley

like cavalry dust, and irises

so purple

In Dubio–the rest of it

Vital Signs