Meet GARY CHRISTIAN-Dixie Poet Pioneer

Gary Christian, originally from Raymond, Alberta, Canada, is a retired attorney who practiced law forty years in Salt Lake City but now spends most of his time knee-deep in poetry. He along with LaVerna Johnson and others developed the Redrock Writers Seminar back in 1997 at Tuachan as well as the Chaparral Poetry Contest and Poetry in the Park now in its 7th year at Zion Park. Presently he serves as secretary of Dixie Poets, a Chapter of Utah State Poetry Society in St. George, and writes to his heart’s content. 

Train to Sunrise  

Evening spreads its stillness

on the prairie. Shadows roost

upon the ledges of the night

when it is ten o’clock.

The moon hangs heavy in the sky,

light spurts along the railroad tracks

in silver streaks

to guide the evening train.

Its wail laments a lonely passage

through the hours.

Its flaring beam burns holes

into the darkness.

It calls me from

the soft embrace of slumber

but will not wait and goes alone

into the empty gloom.

D. Gary Christian