Thank you to Val Tuck of Tuck Magazine for publishing two of my poems.  Here is one of them:

http://tuckmagazine.com/2018/11/07/poetry-1811/

Choices In Frontier Towns

 Amid tumbleweeds and clapboard buildings,

standing upon dirt roads or a sawn timber dais,

snake oil men, extolling their potions,

their curing wares depleted by end of day.

Risky whiskey,

the magic elixir

of 19th-century self-proclaimed wizards.

Was it truly hope in a bottle

or just sanctioned intoxication?

The Old West version of paper or plastic.