The woodpeckers going at the palm trees outside my window wake me today. Someone told me that palms aren’t true trees, but I don’t think the birds care. Down the road, someone’s cache of fireworks explodes all at once, killing some people, taking out his house, sending the fire trucks screaming down […]
John Brantingham
John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including his latest, Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He lives in Jamestown, New York.
Peel
The High Sierra moon lights up Jeff’s tent, so he gets up to watch it rising over Cahoon Meadow and finds Lazarus, raised once again, sitting on a log already watching the shadows stretch across the field at night. Jeff’s skin’s been peeling all day, and now he sits next to Lazarus and starts tugging […]