ONE MORE MOUNTAIN SUNRISE One more mountain sunrise, golden light, clouds of peach and lilac. The forest calls – I answer. Road dust and moss, pinecones and birdsong. I was going to write a poem for you. Instead, I chose one more mountain sunrise. Sally Quon is a back-country blogger, dirt-road diva, and teller […]
VALLUM CHAPBOOK AWARD WINNER 2021 | Heather White | DES MONSTERAS
DES MONSTERAS, excerpt signal bars | wi-fi | time | headphones | battery <DES MONSTERAS share | send We came off the mountain and I was still holding the stick I’d used to prod at the fire and as a baton to conduct us, singing; also to point at our paths and the solstice […]
VALLUM CHAPBOOK AWARD 2021 FINALIST | Malcolm Sanger | STONE SERIES
if the forest heard is …………… it’s mirrors …. over ………………offering ………. until
a ….. jungle ….. here ……………. turn …………………………………… .dressed
leaping in ………………………………………………………………………. … mistakes
…………………………………………… are, as they all say ………………. embarrassed
…………………………………………… over—whelming …………………..mushrooms
…………………………………………………………………………………………… images
Matthew James Weigel | Excerpt from IT WAS TREATY/IT WAS ME, 1st Place Winner of the 2020 Vallum Chapbook Award
from It Was Treaty/It Was Me PÊHONÂN I will ask the interpreter to read to you what has been written, and before I go away I will have a copy made to leave with the principal Chiefs. —Alexander Morris, Commissioner, Treaty No. 6 did you know where the river would take you when you first […]