01 Dec Back 40: Freezeout
How many words do the birds have for wind?...
02 Oct Back 40: Highway 89 North
It will take you there & beyond. Past the twelve thousand year old Anzick Child aglow in red ochre. Past the fallen barn praying on its knees in the basin. At the county line A ghost house looks for its people. The Ringling Church celebrates its loneliness. The depot has died. In winter the whiteouts tell you to turn back but you go on, believing you’re on...
29 Jul Back Forty: In the Two Medicine Badlands Along the Rocky Mountain Front
Poetry of the Northern Rockies...
05 Jun Back 40: Girlwise I Viewed the Prairie
Beige blue horizon and the thrill of sunset violet velvet magenta not just for seconds but minutes coming and then receding from its own brilliant apex and I hoped to have it all, the arrival, the going, but mostly I wanted to keep the fury of color in a full sky and...
09 Feb Back 40: Catch and Release
Poetry by Timothy E. Haught ...
24 Nov Back 40: Big Sky Benediction
Returning to Montana brings bittersweet memories...
20 Oct Fishing the Big Hole River
The trick Fishing for lunkers This side of the Continental Divide On a stretch of the Big Hole River From Glen to Twin Bridges Has little to do with incredible graphite Or a tailored 6 lb tippet. Flip your streamer Up and across stripping line off In a dead drift, back slow then In hand...
30 Sep Back 40: Montana Wind
Near the Rosebud River...
01 Sep Back 40: Herds, Yellowstone
A poem about Yellowstone National Park...
25 Aug Back 40: The Evening News
A poem by Michael Earl Craig...