by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Nov 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
It was the summer of 1987 when the land came up for sale. The old country estate that had sprawled across the green Arkansas valley was being parceled out after the death of the owner. The combination of its remote location and completely undeveloped nature coupled...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Sep 4, 2024 | Uncategorized
All summer long, I enjoy my daily run on the country back roads that most cars forget, roads that are relics of a time when reaching point B as fast as possible wasn’t nearly as much of a priority. Day after day, under the dome of the summer sun, I run, feet slapping...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jul 1, 2024 | Uncategorized
They’re a cross between butterflies and birds, the beautiful ballerinas of nature, the glittering aerialists that whirl effortlessly through the summer skies. I’m referring, as you may have guessed, to hummingbirds. It’s ironic—hummingbirds are the smallest of...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jun 10, 2024 | Poetry
There are places so deep in these mountains, Too deep for adventure to find, Where silence suspends like a cobweb, And nature obeys outside time. A thousand springs’ worth of wildflowers Have reached to the sky all unknown, And rocks that were hewn by the Ice Age Are...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jun 10, 2024 | Poetry
I am watching the lumpy swell of mountains against the horizon Wrinkled like the skin of the elephants that once held up the world Ridged like their bony uncomplaining shoulders. Did those elephants ever tire? But someone has to be the quiet...
