Amity and Prosperity
IN 2007, while crossing a Nigerian river atop a steel drum because a nearby bridge had collapsed, Eliza Griswold recalled the Interstate 35W bridge collapse in Minneapolis that killed 13 people Continue reading
Author Archives: Nick Triolo
14 Alaskan Vocabulary Words
1. Mount Denali. The subject of a postcard photograph to send home as a misleading boast of an adventure you haven’t yet had. 2. Outhouses. When nature calls, half the town Continue reading
Pine’s Prayer against Lumberjacks
Red-buzzing-spindle-bud, Orange-lightning-clover-scale, Yellow-moon-blowfish-mud, Green-crater-raindrop-prayer, Blue-turtle-stamen-flood, Violet-paw print-sulphur-hail, Black-birdsong-limestone-sea— the smallest pea’s brain-symphony. They’ll break the forest’s velvet sleep with axes, fires’ glowing eyes. With fingers feathered omens deep, while breathing, river, Continue reading
Diaspora Sonnet 44
My paradise is hollowed out. I dwell within a famished basin populated by the purpled crowns of Russian thistle. This sage desert is a dry throat and I am a whole Continue reading
The Kinetic Energy of Snow
Not so rare as the meteor that flashed its tufted wings over Russia three days before you were born, its little blazing tail hooked right into me—not so rare as the Continue reading