"When the man took office
I was driving down the road in another country—
Cascadia, warm wet slide along the western wall."
Melinda Price Wiltshire's poem captures impressions of the Pacific Northwest at a moment of profound change.
Tag: WA
OG Bird Rescue Man
"Blood is the color that mixes late September.
It tints the concrete of a late sunset mass."
In striking imagery, Robert Lashley's poem imagines a mysterious savior who offers healing to a broken urban neighborhood.
Interloper
In this short story by Matt Briggs, a man living in his Honda Accord appears outside the home of Maureen Hough, a teenager whose father works a blue-collar job and pays a mortgage on a home not far from Pacific Highway South. A timely story as Seattle faces a critical housing crisis it can't ignore.