Miriam Sagan
San Patricio, New Mexico
Peter Hurd ranch, where the painter worked and lived with his family. Dry ranching country, down by the border.
The quality of utter but unthreatening loneliness in his paintings.
Dusk or moonrise. Night of snow. A window lit in an old adobe. A small figure; another on horseback. Dwarfed but undaunted.
Today, I rather envy myself—if this is even possible. Basically, I am having a delightful time. I do know it is limited, but I don’t know exactly how.
a wishing well
in the graveyard
I wonder…
About the Author
Miriam Sagan founded and directed the creative writing program at Santa Fe Community College in New Mexico until her retirement. Her poetry has been set to music for the Santa Fe Women’s Chorus, incised on stoneware for two haiku pathways, and projected as video inside an abandoned building during the pandemic under the auspices of Vital Spaces.