Poetry and prose

Most people know Karen Heath as the clerk and treasurer for the Town of Medicine Bow, but she is also a writer of seven fiction works and a book of poetry which she recently published in 2021.

Her book of poetry is titled "Book of Days".

A poem in the collection called Elm on the Lawn is one that Heath likes to read to those who don't know her work.

'Warm gentle drops and flickers,

Dancing from leaf to leaf,

Fuzzy dark emerald sprays

Thunder speaks, growling long and low like cougar.

Funnel elm collects and hands water down, leaf by leaf,

Soothing a thirsty soil."

This is Heath's first b...