Author Archives | Sarah Brooks
Sarah Brooks is a writer, teacher and mother who currently lives in Boulder, CO, though she plans to return to New Mexico someday. She's an MFA candidate at Naropa University. Her essays, reviews and stories have appeared in Room, Iris Brown Lit Mag, Sinister Wisdom, and Adoptive Families. Her novella, The Beginning of Us, was published by Riptide in 2013.
A love letter to New Mexico
Dear New Mexico,
No one writes letters anymore. No one ever writes to states. They should. I’m writing to you because I’ve just driven through your land, beneath your open sky, for ten days. Now that I’m back in Colorado, my belly is too empty. I miss you.
I miss you, and I’ve never taken the time to tell you how I love you.
The first time I met you, in 1998, I was twenty. I’d traveled all the way to Las Cruces because I’d fallen in love with a boy who was from there. He said he wanted to show me the desert...
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14. July 2014
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