GREGORY ORMSON

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  • everything was NOISE and splinters

    everything was NOISE and splinters

    Thanks to Brief Wilderness for publishing. Direct link https://briefwilderness.com/2025/07/19/everything-was-noise-and-splinters-by-gregory-ormson/ Growing up, everything was noise and splinters; and while I didn’t think I was fat or stupid, my mother said I was. She didn’t say it all the time, but enough that it registered. I never felt the full weight of this ridicule until I wrote…

  • Rhiannon Giddens and Liberation Songs: When the Blackbird Talks to the Crow

    Rhiannon Giddens and Liberation Songs: When the Blackbird Talks to the Crow

    What I’d give to sing just one song in hope-​​filled voice with Rhiannon Giddens. I’d heard her in Michigan when I sat on the ground; right, there, ten, feet, away — watching and listening — my mouth agape, ears drunk with the power blasting from her body, her banjo, and her SOUL as the Carolina…

  • Ghosts Are Full Here as the Hungry Half Moon Rises 

    Ghosts Are Full Here as the Hungry Half Moon Rises 

    Thank you to PORTLAND REVIEW. Publishing Prose, Poetry, and Art since 1956 And so am I, full with the imprints of time and memory. I am rich in soul, yet I’m hungry for more. It’s not a feast I want: I want what singer Sam Garrett wants, “More life, more blessings; more peace, more unity.”…

  • The Black Box of America, a poem by Gregory Ormson

    The Black Box of America, a poem by Gregory Ormson

    This poem and image was originally published November 20, 2024 by Oddball Magazine. Editors calling it “a monster piece.” The Black Box of America, a poem Few people called a spade a spadebefore the country went up in flames.-Anon No one missed that countryMen were soft, angry, and violentLife was brutal and unforgivingPretentious and vacuous…