Author Bios

Chris Anderson is a professor emeritus of English at Oregon State University and a Catholic deacon. He has published a n…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:   Username or E-mail Password Remember Me     Forgot Password

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Summer Steelhead

is like a secret lover acrobatic enough to give old man heart attack, deliciously fresh out of sea with basil on barbe…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Trailside Hush

I am still here: caught in the quiet of the land. You can find me as easily as the creek finds its way downhill trave…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Paisley Cave

Sitting in the mouth of the shelter, looking out at the sagebrush plain, the shallow lake, the far mountain wall, you …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Geese

Once we were having mass in a yurt on a hill above the sea. This was after a storm, and through the wavy plastic window…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Charger

Sometimes I speed down the coastal highway like there’s an end to this rainbow we’ve been chasing. When I came back to …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Watching for Spring

Oh faux February spring, don’t end. Thank you for trying. Thank you for daphne’s unfolding perfume, daffodils’ yellow d…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Willamette Winter

I remember the pattern of it. The greater seasons. The warmth of a stove, radiating against the chill of pervasive mist…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Released

I arrive to the Columbia River a runaway– it wasn’t my first time My sister will tell you She takes me in her confidenc…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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It is so

Southeast of La Pine distances become real. Miles caged too long in forests on curvy mountain roads step out of the sha…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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The Airlie Branch

Where do unused train tracks go? Sleeping between encroaching bushes Buried beneath blackberries. Parallel lines set in …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Air Raid

One December evening in 1977, I had tickets to hear David Grisman’s stellar bluegrass quintet in San Francisco, but that…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Scorched Earth

August into September, there was leaving California, there were wildfires that torched the West Coast indiscriminately, …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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muscle tree

the madrone near the top of the ridge – slightly bent, spirals to the forest canopy gathering her share of sun and wind …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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It’s Spring

and we are blinded by dogwood-petal snow, by whipped clouds and dogged rain, luscious blos…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Greeting

Dear Fireweed Community, We have appreciated your patience and support as we completed this very late, but very antic…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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What’s Inside

Greeting It’s Spring —Suzy Harris Certificate of Birth Abroad —Eilín de Paor poem.     grandmother book. —Linda Ravensw…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Author Bios

Sufi warrior poet Tiel Aisha Ansari has been featured by Measure, Windfall, and Everyman’s Library. Her collections incl…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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For Erik

I can’t quite imagine which apartment in heaven you’ve chosen to inhabit. Considering your intelligence, & talent,…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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End of a Line

tucked behind shoes, boxes and boxes, memories held hostage. mice have carried off an ancestor or two. moths have eat…   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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Call for Manuscripts

A $1000 prize will be awarded to a writer who is living above the 40th parallel.  Only poets with an even numbered …   For subscribers (Subscribe here!)   Or log in below:  

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