Nicholas Trandahl

@nicholastrandahl

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 down to it …

I am capable of changing my life

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.