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.