This poem was written during the Supreme Court confirmation hearings for Brett Kavanaugh, a time when the country felt deeply broken. Now, that appears to be a permanent condition. All day I drove north through the smoke the turkey vultures rising from the trees circling, forming into loose black clouds flowing past me, south, away […]
Pepper Trail
Pepper Trail's poems have appeared in Rattle, Atlanta Review, Spillway, Borderlands, Ascent and other publications, and have been nominated for Pushcart and Best of the Net Awards. His collection, Cascade-Siskiyou: Poems, was a finalist for the 2016 Oregon Book Award in Poetry. Pepper lives in Ashland, Oregon, where he work as a biologist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
We Want Another Planet
In my wildest dreams, I cannot imagine a more strange and beautiful world than the one we once had. So, that is the one I imagine. Blue like ours, and green Full of islands and mountains Many trees, and also grass Even, in places, deserts And as for animals Our imagination can do no […]