Scattered Risks

by Uschuk, Pamela

• ISBN13: 9780916727123
• ISBN10: 0916727122
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-10-01
• Publisher: Wings Press

Summary

Sensual and powerful, this poetry collection explores the natural world of western Colorado, Mexico, and elsewhere.

Author Biography

Pamela Uschuk runs Raven's Word Writing Center in Durango, Colorado, and edits Cutthroat Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2000 Struga International Poetry Prize. She lives in Durango, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Attitude
Good Friday and the Snowstorm Keeps Land Developers from Clearing the Woods	p. 3
Eating Salmon	p. 5
14th Way	p. 7
Easter Morning in North Carolina	p. 9
Hush	p. 11
Running Through Dogwood Blooms	p. 12
Sometimes It's Hard to Maintain an Attitude	p. 13
On My Birthday an Eagle Appears	p. 14
Duck Season	p. 17
Porcupine	p. 18
All Cynical Ooze	p. 19
Song for LuLu, the Red Wolf	p. 20
Snow Goose Migration at Tule Lake	p. 21
White Deer	p. 23
Theology For The Turn Of The Century
Theology for the Turn of the Century	p. 27
Counting Humpback Whales off Cape Cod	p. 28
Touch Pool	p. 29
Lessons In Fighting Old Age	p. 32
Hummingbird	p. 33
Accord	p. 35
Words Against the Reinstitution of the Ivory Trade	p. 37
21st Century Split	p. 39
Owl Songs from the Twilight Field	p. 41
Healing in the Language of Trees	p. 46
Drawn to Light	p. 48
Early in the Sunken Garden	p. 49
From the Invisible Coast	p. 51
Scattered Risks
Theory of Reduction in the Rockies	p. 59
Black Ice	p. 63
Scattered Risks	p. 67
Rocky Mountain Goats	p. 69
Loving the Outlaw	p. 70
Raven Sermon I	p. 71
Waiting for the Next Ax	p. 73
At the Thin Rail	p. 75
Biodiversity	p. 78
The Fifth World Nation Attends Sunset on Wolf Creek Pass	p. 80
Pack Trip at 9000 Feet	p. 82
Wolf Lecture	p. 84
Photographing the Moose	p. 85
The Climb	p. 86
Acknowledgments	p. 90
About the Author	p. 93
Critical Praise	p. 95
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