Christopher Mulrooney

We have to do a focus on a great piece, "Hacienda", by Christopher Mulrooney in vol. 5, no. 4 Summer 2014 at LostCoastReview. Poetry has many genres, way more than fiction, and one of those is the American desert, the West. This piece is a classic take on the ambience, lifestyle and feeling of the place, in a way that echoes with the wide open spaces of air and cliffs and flatlands. It's concise but fits the tone of the locale portrayed.

Here's an excerpt:

when the lights turn purple and gorgeous in the West

and Eastern lies the cactus-green sunrise

above the ammonia gray and indigo sandstone

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