BRIDGER WILDERNESS, JUNE

BRIDGER WILDERNESS, JUNE

Aug 1

Written By Lexi Ragan

Photo by Gabrielle Johnson (ChasingHorizons)

A Poem by Nicholas Trandahl

North.

North,

riverstone eyes.

Grizzly bear morning.

Blackberry water,

glacial blue.

Rugged Wind River architecture,

snowfields,

jagged

stone,

high axe-blade crest

of Fremont Peak

over

an alpine basin.

Green River Pass,

high holy road

to summer ice,

confluence

of hope,

prayer

and terror.

Wind rushes

through old timber

on valley’s rim,

around

forms of bark

and bough,

flesh

and bone,

eyes

wide open.

Nicholas Trandahl is an award-winning poet, journalist, outdoorsman, and veteran residing in northern Wyoming, where he currently also serves as mayor of his community. He has had six poetry collections published and has also been featured in numerous literary journals and anthologies. Trandahl has been awarded the Wyoming Writers Milestone Award and has received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize. Additionally, he works as poetry editor for *The Dewdrop* literary journal and as a contributor for *The Way Back to Ourselves* literary journal.