Dixie Lee Partridge

DIXIE PARTRIDGE {[email protected]} is a frequent contrib￾utor of poetry in Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought, and other periodicals. She lives in the Columbia Basin in the state of Washing￾ton and writes frequently about it and the landscape of her child￾hood in Idaho.

Noted in the Dark

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 3

Some nights here there’ve been singings      the children out into twilight . . . their countings,their hidings, their      ally ally oxen frees.And sometimes the crickets were not sounding bereft      but offered impressions you needed to hear. Now in…

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These Are the Hours

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 3

when birds disappear taking strips of light      folded in feathersnight insects ready themselves      for meals from leaves of rose and raspberrythe hollow by the lane      pools with evening like waterno moonrise cool radiance      but night…

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Vantage: Hoback Rim to Wind River

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 3

Closed to drift most of the year,trails descend through short lives of wildflowersbright in colonies, August air verging on frost,its thin metallic edge:snow squalls visible aheadwhere a continent divides.Life stays steep. Nothing in the view…

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The Days Between—After Leaving Our YoungestAt College

Articles/Essays – Volume 56, No. 3

It’s turning fall in this long alley of young trees,poplar leaves still and golding in deep shade.You see no one and hear not even birds. But the pale trunks together seem to humlike choir rows,…

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Nocturne, October

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

The chapel dark, organ pipes glow 
moon-silver. Silence 
is filled: after-ripples, 
the aura of living tones, 
Bach, Handel. 

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On Seeing Part of a Cast Iron Stove, Rusting Behind a Shed

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

We didn’t know they were hard times, 
            even though that winter they had to borrow our hoard:
            seven dollars from me and five from my sister. 
            Our days were the usual homemade loaves, 
            peaches we’d bottled, our own half-beef in the locker, 

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Luggage

Articles/Essays – Volume 20, No. 4

You are required to keep the poundage low: 
two large cases and a carry-on: 
what you take for months overseas. 
In a year of famine, you have volunteered 

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Abandoned Farmyard, November

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 3

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Cliff Dwellings

Articles/Essays – Volume 22, No. 3

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One of the Women

Articles/Essays – Volume 23, No. 3

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Words for Late Summer

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 2

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One Sunday’s Rain (After Word of My Father’s Illness)

Articles/Essays – Volume 24, No. 3

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Night Myths

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 1

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Notes for a Son, 19, Living Abroad

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 1

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Breadcrumbs

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 1

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Leave of Absence

Articles/Essays – Volume 26, No. 3

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Movements Giving Off Light

Articles/Essays – Volume 27, No. 1

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RELEASE: A Moment

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 1

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Saturday: One Version (Fourth Week of an Unidentified Illness)

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 2

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Bread: A Returning

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 3

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Descending Order

Articles/Essays – Volume 28, No. 4

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Moon Phases: Childhood

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2

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Mountain Turn-out: Week After My Father’s Funeral

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2

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“Watercress Grows Best in Running Water”

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

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After a Late Night, Waiting

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 4

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Afterward

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1

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Above the Estuary

Articles/Essays – Volume 32, No. 1

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Night Light

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 2

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Night Work Near Escalante

Articles/Essays – Volume 36, No. 3

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Movement: Out of Doors, Out of Town, In Dangerous Times

Articles/Essays – Volume 37, No. 1

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The Riverbank, Late Winter: Living North

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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The Fall of My Fiftieth Year

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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Eighteen Thousand Sundowns

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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Reading into Dusk

Articles/Essays – Volume 38, No. 1

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After My Brother’s Remission

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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Some with Shadows

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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While Planting Hollyhocks

Articles/Essays – Volume 40, No. 3

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White Rain (forty years since our meeting)

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

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Flying Out

Articles/Essays – Volume 42, No. 1

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Time Being

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 3

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In this Version of Autumn

Articles/Essays – Volume 43, No. 3

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Vitae

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4

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Visible from Here

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4

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Dark Energy

Articles/Essays – Volume 44, No. 4

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Shade

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1

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Evenings in October

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1

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Not Far Off Trail, Late Summer

Articles/Essays – Volume 47, No. 1

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