2020
Gallery WINNERS
‘JOVIAN TEMPEST’ BY NASA VIA WIKIMEDIA COMMONS
Taylor moving
1275 Sherman Dr, Longmont 303.443.5885
A Holistic Funeral home
the form of a tempest by greg alston 102 W. Chester st., BOULDER 720.515.2344
COTTONWOOD KENNELS
7275 VALMONT RD., BOULDER 303.442.2602
North boulder dental
North Boulder D E N TA L
1001 North st., BOULDER 303.447.1042
and sometimes it doesn’t rhyme but just seeps out like effluent washing over the cobbled streets of a town you’ve never been to and stumbling, burdened with the mannerisms of my father’s father’s and these feet that must walk and listening now as the roar of humanity approaches with it’s atavistic howl coming closer i draw these curtains inward to step back, barefootedly toward the shelter of a memory that is not mine but shared collectively and remembered by the whispering of the trees and falling asleep on an afternoon so long ago Greg Alston is a gardener, cook, father and some other things, too.
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