AND SO IT BEGINS

DICK ALTMAN

In southern Colorado’s silver-mined Plata peaks, an avalanche of snow unwraps terra’s treasured vessel of soil—moist, winter-rested, eager to embrace light’s golden sheen of spring.

DICK ALTMAN writes in the high, thin, magical air of Santa Fe, New Mexico, where, at 7,000 feet, reality and imagination often blur. He is published in Santa Fe Literary Review, American Journal of Poetry, Fredericksburg Literary Review, Foliate Oak, Blue Line, Landing Zone, Cathexis, Humana Obscura, Haunted Waters Press, Split Rock Review, The Ravens Perch, Beyond Words, New Verse News, Wingless Dreamer, Sky Island Journal and others here and abroad. A Pushcart Prize nominee and a poetry winner of Santa Fe New Mexican’s annual literary competition, he has in progress two collections of some 150 published poems. His work has been selected for the forthcoming first volume of The New Mexico Anthology of Poetry, to be published by the New Mexico Museum Press.