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| Issue 32: | June 2026 |
| Poem: | 75 words |
| + Visual Art: | Photograph |
Photograph by Chuck Kimmerle
Poem by Gary S. Rosin
Still Standing
Bodie Ghost Town. Snow slants across the steeple of the old church. Its bell no longer breaks the silence of the snow, offers no shelter from the bite of the wind, the weight of your life. You stand in the falling, listen for ghosts, but hear only your own pulse, counting in one ear the ticking of years. You brush flakes off shoulders, lest they fill your pockets. No angels in the snow.
—Inspired by this photograph:
Spring Snow, Bodie © 2026 by Chuck Kimmerle. All rights reserved.
Reproduced here from Instagram (11 May 2026) with artist’s permission.
See also Bodie Blackout Window by Gary S. Rosin, inspired by Chuck Kimmerle’s untitled photograph of a window in Bodie ghost town (10 December 2024), both of which appear in MacQueen’s Quinterly (Issue 28, April 2025).
Chuck Kimmerle
is a U.S. based, fine-art landscape photographer who prefers to work in the reticent and quiet areas located in-between the popular, overcrowded, and over-photographed destinations of grand beauty.
While his style is rooted within the foundations of traditional landscape photography, his observations and interactions are both contemporary and introspective.
More details at: www.chuckkimmerle.com
You can also follow his work on Instagram and Facebook.
More on the Web: By, About, and Beyond
⚡ Portrait of Manzanar at 82 by Gary S. Rosin, inspired by Chuck Kimmerle’s photograph Four Stairs, both of which appear in Issue 23 of MacQueen’s Quinterly (April 2024)
⚡ Photographing in Black and White: Seeing Beyond Color, an article by Chuck Kimmerle at PetaPixel (17 September 2021), courtesy of ELEMENTS Magazine
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