Nicholas Trandahl

ARABIA

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ALKALI CREEK, YESTERDAY

when it comes down to it …

I am

I am                 changing

I am capable

I am                                my life

when it comes down to it …

I am capable of changing

I am                 changing my life

I am                 changing       life

I am capable of               my life

I am capable of                     life

I am                                      life

when it comes down to it …

when it comes do

I am capable of changing m

WHILE LISTENING TO ETHIOPIAN JAZZ

            anyway …

there

are lions

on the mountain

lions

on the mountain

lions

            … anyway

lions

are lions

on the mountain

            … anyway

mountain

lions

                        there

on the mountain

            … anyway

on the mountain

there

are lions

            on lions

                        on the mountain

                                   … anyway

Nicholas Trandahl is an award-winning Wyoming poet, photographer, and journalist. He is a community leader, mental health and suicide prevention advocate, and a disabled U.S. Army veteran. He has been awarded the Wyoming Writers Milestone Award and his poems have received several nominations for the Pushcart Prize and Best of the Net. Trandahl is the author of seven poetry collections, and his poetry and photography has appeared in various literary journals.