Beautiful. My girlfriend and I went to Crystal mountain resort yesterday for a hike and then for a gondola ride to see majestic Mount Rainier. We are recent transplants and have been exploring Seattle and its environs. Best to you, Mr. Alexie. I hope we meet up someday.
Wow. Your openness will be so helpful to many people, and what a skilled way to put it all into words. The final line shows great strength: "survive a thousand more". I sure hope so.
"One thousand broken treaties with my brain" That seems very powerful, for some reason. I have no idea, however, why "All my Exes Live in Texas" suddenly started playing. It is certainly not brain worthy.
Something not good happens to me in the month of September. Thank you for sharing this poem as it has helped my last few moments, moving to the next. I recall living in Tacoma, noting that all Pierce County Sheriff records factually point out that there are more traffic accidents on days when The Mountain ( Rainier ) is ‘out’. Bank on it.
Hey, a slight rewrite only an hour after I posted the original. It came to me as I was driving home. I need to complete the circle that connects Mt. Rainier and my bipolar disorder.
I just gifted a subscription to an English friend- I thought I charged it to a credit card but it just appeared on my apple account- just wanted to make sure it did not get sent twice. Thanks
Does that fact that it is most likely smoke at this point mean anything? I returned from hiking in Garibaldi Park, and day 6 almost obscured Diamond Head... but not quite... so ghostly among the other peaks, yet after 5 days of hiking around, it was in my gut, and the smell in my nostrils and back of my throat. Just thinking... Hiking does that. (And just enjoyed your panel--thank you!)
I was thinking more of the days when it is fog and low clouds, and not fire smoke, that is obscuring Rainier. And thanks for the kind words about the panel.
Later. I have to get ready to be on the red carpet tomorrow night with Billy Eichner for the premier of the movie Bros. I wander if any of the royal family in England are bipolar or depressives? I think I saw a ghost on top of that mountain.
I never liked poems because I didn't, and still don't for the most part, understand them. I get yours and I feel them. Thank you.
Magnificent last line with the multivalent associations of the word “treaties” within the poem’s context.
Thank you, Daniel!
Beautiful. My girlfriend and I went to Crystal mountain resort yesterday for a hike and then for a gondola ride to see majestic Mount Rainier. We are recent transplants and have been exploring Seattle and its environs. Best to you, Mr. Alexie. I hope we meet up someday.
Thank you, Lee.
Wow. Your openness will be so helpful to many people, and what a skilled way to put it all into words. The final line shows great strength: "survive a thousand more". I sure hope so.
Thank you, Arjan.
The mountain has been a part of my life forever. As a child when it was obscured by clouds I always thought it was hiding.
Yes!
Slight fine line between the magic of poetry and the art of reportage.
"One thousand broken treaties with my brain" That seems very powerful, for some reason. I have no idea, however, why "All my Exes Live in Texas" suddenly started playing. It is certainly not brain worthy.
Hahahahaahahahaha!
Something not good happens to me in the month of September. Thank you for sharing this poem as it has helped my last few moments, moving to the next. I recall living in Tacoma, noting that all Pierce County Sheriff records factually point out that there are more traffic accidents on days when The Mountain ( Rainier ) is ‘out’. Bank on it.
Looking at Mt. Baker right now from across the Salish Sea so this was the right moment to listen to this. Thank you.
Serendipity
Hey, a slight rewrite only an hour after I posted the original. It came to me as I was driving home. I need to complete the circle that connects Mt. Rainier and my bipolar disorder.
Hey Sherman
I just gifted a subscription to an English friend- I thought I charged it to a credit card but it just appeared on my apple account- just wanted to make sure it did not get sent twice. Thanks
Does that fact that it is most likely smoke at this point mean anything? I returned from hiking in Garibaldi Park, and day 6 almost obscured Diamond Head... but not quite... so ghostly among the other peaks, yet after 5 days of hiking around, it was in my gut, and the smell in my nostrils and back of my throat. Just thinking... Hiking does that. (And just enjoyed your panel--thank you!)
I was thinking more of the days when it is fog and low clouds, and not fire smoke, that is obscuring Rainier. And thanks for the kind words about the panel.
Right... I have recent days on my mind!
Absolutely. I didn't know how to put this into words but yes. It's like you forgot about the mountain. Something is missing.
Thanks!
Later. I have to get ready to be on the red carpet tomorrow night with Billy Eichner for the premier of the movie Bros. I wander if any of the royal family in England are bipolar or depressives? I think I saw a ghost on top of that mountain.
I’d assume the royal family has a lot of issues considering the long, long history of cousins marrying cousins.
One thousand broken treaties and yet survival. Powerful. Man wrestling with destiny, getting to the bell, able to come out for the next round
Thank you, Indran. Yes, always limping forward.
Wonderful
Thank you.
This is so lovely and so relatable. Thank you for what you do.
Thank you.
absolutely empathize as a fellow artist with a mood disorder. i will hang this on my wall as a source of solace. xo
Thank you.
The world is a little bit better because of your poems. Thank you for the magic.
Thank you.