Warren Hatch
WARREN HATCH {[email protected]} is the author of Mapping the Bones of the World (Signature Books) and the forthcoming Fieldguide to the Redshifting Universe. His work has also appeared in such journals as Prairie Schooner and Western Humanities Review.
Articles
Keeping Fire
The moon is up, and the fire has burned down.
Benjamin stoops, coaxes embers to life.
“Hello,” he says.
“Cold?” I ask.
“Not so much,” he says.
October Above Trial Lake
Boo and Yamba climb fast, finding trail in dusk, and I follow
on stiffening mud and snowcrust from last week’s first snow.
They skirt Cliff Lake then Petit, Linear, and so between glacial morains,
taciturn boys bewildered by plunging cold and this sudden-setting
behavior of water. The lakes bend in each ascending basin,
In Passing To Her Fathers
In Saint George, Lena McCain had cancer.
She set her house in order.
In Las Vegas, the doctors went after the cancer with a knife,
got it, watched her closely.