….
after the give of tundra beneath after flush of
windburn and perilous snowfield after listening
for the howl after just missing it after the
sound of mountains gathering thunder after
belaboring trails and breathlessness after
mountain goats and hailstorms after prophetic
pupils of wild sheep after pronghorns in
various pastures after the signaling of marmots
in the talus and the rut of elk herds in the valley
after the deadening and the ice formation after
desert boulder scrambling and desiccated mornings
after perpetually burning coal seams after
wildfires and countless descents along the spine
I have let it all thin out like oxygen at the summit
I have expanded every perceivable limit becoming
larger more attenuated less tumultuous and
severe and I leave parts of myself behind
not in abandonment but safekeeping |
After Sueyeun Juliette Lee’s “The Black Magma Inside You,”
from Aerial Concave Without Cloud.
….
This excerpt is from the chapbook wolf mutter by K. Blasco Solér (Finishing Line Press), and can be found at https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/wolf-mutter-by-k-blasco-soler/
K. Blasco Solér lives in Gainesville and teaches writing and literature at the University of Florida while researching the borderless relations between land, water, and cultural memory. K’s poetry is informed by an upbringing in Alaska, a background in science writing, and a recent study of intergenerational trauma and the reemergence of the gray wolf in the Southern Rockies. K completed her MFA in creative writing and poetics from Naropa University’s Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics.
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