Island Life

by Ruby Hansen Murray

 


In the curve of N Welcome Slough at the old Anderson place, RVs assemble, country
music, a fire pit beside the river. Children and beach towels, a porta potty
No Trespassing signs.

Weekdays, the old dairy farmers walk back and forth to the barn, the black cat and
three kittens hunt.

 
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Ruby Hansen Murray is a columnist for the Osage News. Winner of the Montana Nonfiction Prize, she received fellowships from Ragdale, Hedgebrook, and Fishtrap. Her work appears in Pleiades, Massachusetts Review, Colorlines, and The Rumpus. A citizen of the Osage Nation with West Indian roots, she lives along the Columbia.