Terrain.org is a stellar online magazine, with beautiful layouts of photography that illustrate the poetry, essays, and fiction it publishes. Sometimes the photos are pulled from stock. This time, the photos are by my son, Tyler Lausten (!), and my friend TJ Holmes. The layout is all Terrain. The essay is mine. https://www.terrain.org/2023/nonfiction/in-the-rut/ To read … Continue reading →

The cow elk has rested there for days after her struggle to free her right hind leg from the death trap of the smooth, “wildlife-friendly,” high-tensile-wire fence. Somehow she’d stepped between the bottom two wires and they twisted and tightened around thick, solid bone and she was already dead a day when I first saw the … Continue reading →