GREGORY ORMSON

Category: Midwest

  • Marquette, Michigan, August 2016

    Marquette, Michigan, August 2016

     

  • COMMEMORATION

    Allen Keith Ormson Uncle Al (Allen) graduated from Barron High School in 1957, and then went to college at The University of Wisconsin, River Falls, where he earned a bachelor’s degree graduating in 1963. Like many boys growing up with brothers, my father Dean, and his brothers Al and Duane engaged in sibling rivalry. At…

  • The Land of OZ in Wisconsin’s North Woods

    Paragraph from an essay in progress, “Oz: Emerging Truth.”    OZ sits me down where we’re accompanied by the parting grip of Old Man Winter. His dying is not pretty, he’s peeping around the corner in prurient self-interest, wanting to mess with Easter. But he can’t, so Old Man Winter becomes a disgruntled wizard, holding…

  • Ghosts published in Turks Head Review 8/4/15

    Ghosts

  • Midwest

    Midwest

    My arm was sore, but over and over I pulled the rope. The Evinrude sputtered and coughed. After a few minutes, it kicked into idle and spewed out blue clouds of exhaust near the water. The old boat motor had an ornery sound, like the voice of someone when their car doesn’t start in winter.…

  • Midwest – from the Old Style Place. Cabin Writing

    Midwest – from the Old Style Place. Cabin Writing

    Notes from The Old Style Place                                             Everything at The Old Style Place remains upright, anchored in stubbornness. Its steadfast preachment to tenacity has denied gravity its victory. This stubbornness was earned by hammer and…

  • Midwest BLOOD TRACKS

    Midwest BLOOD TRACKS

    I’ve been traveling for two days and I’m tired of being treated like a number. I’m finally at my destination, a cabin in northern Wisconsin. I’ve come a long way to be here, and I know my journey from Hawaii was worth it. Opening the door, I grope to find a light switch. In a…

  • Midwest “O Rings”: Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    “O Rings”: Old Style Place (Am Writing): I tune to WOJB for an in-breaking from another world. The indigenous people speak in even tones, softly on the microphone, nearly a chant. …

  • Midwest Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    Midwest Old Style Place (Am Writing)

    I tune to WOJB for an in-breaking from another world. The indigenouspeople speak in even tones, softly on the microphone, nearly a chant. Theiridiom camouflages a humor I sometimes get.  Dead air, then a night-time jock speaks with refreshing lack of pretense, clear and simple. She says, “Good evening everyone. It’s Tuesday and I hope…

  • Midwest “O Rings”: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a…

    “O Rings”: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a…: Paging through the album, I stop at a photo of a dark-haired, bespectacled 50-year old wearing an orange hat and brown flannel shirt,…