Nicholas Trandahl
MONTANA PASSAGE (PART III)
Rhubarb
honey
spreads
on buckwheat
birdsong
flowing
north
on Montana
backroad
slow-
burn
earthen
turn
south
of Medicine Rocks
and
it’s like
fingers
of something
buried
reaching
high
to pull
sky
back
into the earth
in great
torrents
of breath
and void
some
prophecy
reversed.
Discordant
slash
across
centerline
pulp
like
a violinist
in lush
green
weekend
scene
electric citric
particulate
passing
fast
colors
of collapse
and sometimes
I suspect
it’s too late
to become
someone
better
sparks
blooming
windblown
in skull-
vault
nerve
weave
shadows
unknowable
frequencies
so suddenly
knowable.
MONTANA PASSAGE (PART VIII)
MONTANA PASSAGE (PART VII)
Tangerine
acid
soaks
Rothko
colorfield
vacance
in rotating
Canadian
haze
before
scarlet
dusk
plays
concertos
across
umber
spine
northern
light
ghost
shards
slipping
in
and
out
of gloom
and we
breathe
bright
embers
into
strawberry
milk
crescent.
Nicholas Trandahl is a poet, photographer, and journalist in northern Wyoming. He has had seven poetry collections published, with his collection Purgatory (2023) rising to the number one new release in American Poetry on the Amazon Bestsellers list.
He has been awarded the Wyoming Writers Milestone Award and his poems have received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize. His poetry has been published in various literary journals, including but not limited to the James Dickey Review, Santa Fe Literary Review, Sky Island Journal, Voices de la Luna, Deep Wild Journal, and Soft Star Magazine. His photography has been published in Twenty Bellows and Resurrection Mag.
Additionally, he works as the poetry editor for the online literary journal The Dewdrop.