Her Missing Piece

Her Missing Piece

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...
Transfigure This

Transfigure This

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...
My love is a mountain pass

My love is a mountain pass

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...
Hard as a Rock

Hard as a Rock

Hard as a Rock I did not know who to beuntil I took the weightof a place on my shoulders. I wasn’t a camel,but I bowed downto take mountains upon mountains,eagles, eggs, and nests,streams, cutthroat trout,sagebrush and sage grouse,jack rabbits, rattle snakes,and shy...
Land of green sage and blueberry skies

Land of green sage and blueberry skies

Land of green sage and blueberry skies I have loved you in every season From blizzards to heat waves Watching your lizards in the sun sage-grouse dancing in your folds Pronghorn stepping gently across your skin Cougar tracks high on your mountainsides Newly hatched...