for OR-93
Your long walk
the light
that rose
mountains trees
slice of road
your pack left behind
swift journey south
how borders
were not yours
imperiled traveler
we tracked and glimpsed
your search no companion for miles
the coastline
fog of ancestors wolf-ghosts on moonlit wind
quiet collar your lupine neck
dispersal the wild roam
the strike
bruise and bone tissue trauma
carcass on the frontage road
witness
lost & found your last breath
far from blood-kin wandering spirit
sighting home
Brittney Corrigan is the author of the poetry collections Daughters, Breaking, Navigation, 40 Weeks and most recently, Solastalgia, a collection of poems about climate change, extinction, and the Anthropocene Age (JackLeg Press, 2023). Brittney was raised in Colorado and has lived in Portland, Oregon for the past three decades, where she is an alumna and employee of Reed College. She is currently at work on her first short story collection. For more information, visit http://brittneycorrigan.com/.