Tag: alaska

  • Animals

    black bird perching on concrete wall with ocean overview
    Photo by Tim Mossholder on Pexels.com

    On my recent road trip to help my friend Tara with her move — flying out to Alaska followed by a long drive down the Alaskan Highway and then down to Iowa — one of the things I hoped I would see was some of the wildlife… even if only via the moving frame of the car window. I wasn’t sure what exactly I might see that would be different than what I might see within the boundaries of my own state, but I was hoping to see something different.

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  • taiga tempts

    everywhere i turn
    i see raven watching

    roadsides, treetop
    even at the store
    overlooking children
    of the first nations

    ’listen,’ they say
    ’look,’ they add
    ’there is a story
    here needing telling’

    the taiga tempts
    blackened feathers fall
    as they slip away

  • relations

    raven circles overhead
    welcoming me to
    their home by the ocean
    bringing all our relations