Tag: #Lyric Nonfiction
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Why Liturgist of the Land
A Single Work Completed Does anyone experience a single work completed? A work done so perfectly that nothing more needs to be added or taken away. In my recent lyric essay “Liturgist of the Land: A Single Work Completed,” the entire meditation turns on four actions. They form the simplest structure of labor I have…
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Returning from There part iii
IT LIES . . . (Google Maps), telling me a trip from Arizona to central Wisconsin is 1800 miles and 26 hours by car. Truth is, it’s nearly 5 days Returning From There, moving from hot to cold and back to hot again. It takes a certain kind of sisu to drive that shit, a…
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The Pairings There part ii
My listening is attentive to voices talking story. Tales come from friends of many years in finely tuned narratives, arriving like rivers, landing in my head after a journey along banks that bend and rebound and then morph into chronicles of the heart. These chronicles of the heart grow from the pairings there and .…
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The Getting There part i
In the getting there, things happen on a trip to make it more interesting. A friend wrote about traveling through the Ozarks when his car’s engine repair light came on. The fix was expensive, but while waiting for a local garage to repair his car, he explored the area and ended up writing an interesting…
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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…
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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…
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Reading Yoga Song on International Yoga Day
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLCLj3Nc_FE Yoga Song by Gregory Ormson is a beautifully written book that explores yoga as a transformative and therapeutic practice. The author presents yoga as a song for the soul, emphasizing its healing power and ability to bring harmony to the mind, body, and spirit. The book is structured into 23 lyric vignettes, each illustrating…
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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.”…