I am delighted to share a poem this month by Jean Bower. Jean was born in Denver where she was raised, she says, never knowing that she was a child of the Depression and relatively poor. She lives in Montrose now, where she and her husband taught school and raised their family. Jean has two published books of poems and one of short stories for children in Spanish.

– Beth Paulson, Ouray County poet laureate

You Go, Girl

Recently, I’ve been hearing my heart’s voice,

not its loving me, keep...