Megan Thayne Heath

MEGAN THAYNE HEATH holds a B.A. degree in English from the University of Utah and an M.S.W. degree from Portland State University. She currently practices medical social work at a hospital in El Paso, Texas. She and her husband, Ed, have two sons.

Life-line

Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4

Tonight I wear your dress
like a shell to my most graceless springing.
The brown velvet shimmers with the folds
and the tucks hang like loosely gathered wind,

Desert Bloom

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2

There are no maybes in the desert;
you have to be lizard-quick or shrivel and die.
The Rio Grande is muddy from its occasional pause,
here where survival is yes or no.

Birthday Dreaming

Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 3

Sixty-four years ago my grandmother was shifting in her sleep, admiring her growing belly with gentle hands, welcoming the October nightfall that enclosed her like prayer. That’s how pregnancy is, ordinary things move on without…