by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jun 10, 2024 | Poetry
Another mountain autumn. Cloud-curls shed confetti, And silver frost is wrapping every tree in ribbons. Another year Is layered on my face. I am a tree, Adding rings each season, and I fight To keep my skin from growing hard, to keep the green Still dripping in...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | May 5, 2024 | Uncategorized
I just finished it this week. My most recent writing project, one big enough to deserve color-coded outlines and a notebook full of research materials, which I will unreasonably hang onto even though they have served their purpose. It’s an accomplishment eleven months...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Apr 8, 2024 | Uncategorized
Yesterday, I stood in daytime dark and saw the light. Like over two hundred million other people across North America, I had the amazing opportunity to see one of nature’s rarest phenomena—a total solar eclipse. In fact, my home in Arkansas lay squarely in the...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Mar 11, 2024 | Uncategorized
The bluebird box has been there for years, decades even. It’s nothing impressive to look at—just a simple cedar box mounted to a rusty T-post and sheltered under a spray of spirea and a slender pear tree. Like most things that have lived patiently through the swirl of...
by Ashlyn McKayla Ohm | Jan 2, 2024 | Uncategorized
Be Thou my vision… The prayer floats skyward, whispering across the short-shaved crop fields—a plea to see. Here, where the land leaps forward, my gaze is stretched for miles. O King of my heart… Here, in the wildness of the high grasslands, the horizon embraces us...
