by Will Falk | Feb 11, 2024 | Reflection
For the past three years, I’ve been involved in a campaign to stop the Lithium Nevada Corporation from destroying a beautiful mountain pass in northern Nevada – known as Thacker Pass in English, or Peehee mu’huh in the local Numic (Paiute) language – to extract...
by Will Falk | Jan 31, 2024 | Reflection
Yesterday, I attended a Tribal Leaders Summit at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) with the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony (RSIC). The event was hosted by UNR’s Office of Indigenous Relations, University Center of Economic Development, and the Nevada Indian...
by Will Falk | May 11, 2023 | Reflection
Her Missing Piece, by Will Falk The sky carefully drawsthe wet to his lover’s surfacebefore his rain gently entersher soil and trees grow withthese rhythms of water and dirt. The sun is utterly dependable.He burns for the solar system,his mistress, and fills his...
by Will Falk | May 8, 2023 | Reflection
Transfigure This(after John O’Donohue) by Will Falk You told me totransfigure the painas the unleaded liquidremains of corpses combustedand dragged me acrossasphalt lacerationsslashed across the Earth’s skin. I wanted to.I sat down just nowto do exactly that. Then I...
by Will Falk | May 4, 2023 | Reflection
My love is a mountain pass. Older than me, and far more experienced, I did not know who wooed who, or why. When she looked at me with great basin starlight, that very first night, it was love at first sight. I never needed more than to merely brush my tender way...
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