Megan Thayne Heath
MEGAN THAYNE HEATH holds a B.A. degree in English from the University of Utah and an M.S.W. degree from Portland State University. She currently practices medical social work at a hospital in El Paso, Texas. She and her husband, Ed, have two sons.
Life-line
Articles/Essays – Volume 29, No. 4
Tonight I wear your dress
like a shell to my most graceless springing.
The brown velvet shimmers with the folds
and the tucks hang like loosely gathered wind,
Desert Bloom
Articles/Essays – Volume 30, No. 2
There are no maybes in the desert;
you have to be lizard-quick or shrivel and die.
The Rio Grande is muddy from its occasional pause,
here where survival is yes or no.