The first of each month a new poem or excerpt by Gail will be posted here.

           Gail just returned from the Taos Toolbox writers conference and had a fantastic and productive time. Thank-you to Walter Jon Williams, Kelly Link and all my new friends and fellow writers!

 
      a poem from Taos:

"Pan is the Mountain"       

What makes a mountain?
Is it trees?
Rocks?
The dirt, ground stone
to hold it together?

We walk mountain paths
Take in blue sky
Wind
Great black ravens
guarding the heights
Ordering us home
to safe walls
and warm beds.

But what makes a mountain
call us to climb it pinnacle
sit and wait at the very top
listen for a voice
across the snow?

Pan is the mountain.

Gail Strickland
June 18th, 2008