| Show GRANDMA REMEMBERS Melba SUMMERS Payne Provo Utah Professional Division Honorable Mention Poetry She remembers the mountains On the Mountains The dugway Like sentinals above her town was granite-high phrase familiar Riding or hiking up or down So teams was rough of horses rocky and plodding steep slow Permitted the children to gather wild flowers Then climb back in the wagon while still on the She remembers the tollgate by the The The shivering aspens the smell of the pines splashes of color fresh and new go creek The Beaver Dam and the dairy too She bottle-fed the Starvie Lambs Sheepherder friends brought home And listened for the Peep Peep each lambing spring in warm brown egg Watched calf a-borning another magic thing She drove The most the cows unhurried And followed Or sometimes She coaxed Out west to the creek bovine kicked job girl to drink could footprints in the dust can forblock or two the mare into of town where lope the cattails Where the Sanpitch flows and To the willowed shade where the she While like grandma do remembers she blow fishes are Tiked to go to describe Her country summers from spring to fall You see in the telling she lives again The many things she can still recall ALWAYS HORSESHOE Pear MOUNTAIN Olsen salt Lake City Utah Professional Division Honorable Mention Poetry For centuries The mountain stood in sculptured mold |
