Remote Journalism

Here’s a poem I just wrote for a contest to write about Wyoming. Critique appreciated before I submit it! It’s like 90% true, and I understand real life is more complex than this, but there’s truth in the point. Left fields behind and, going in blind, I took work in New York skyscrapers, for America’s voices and editorial choices came down from the big-city papers. I wrote about hills and the new nature bills for a country I never could see. My salary went to huge loans and rent in a city I...