THE OREGON TRAIL + ALL OF MY DEATHS
An accidental buckshot, broken leg [couldn’t bother to bandage the
bullet-hole or change clothes], cholera, dehydration, dysentery, the
devil I’m sure dulling the disk, exhaustion, fever, foes, the fire I forgot
to gut until I was engulfed, greed, grief, the goddamn horse taking
off, the horse-kick, the humor in dying infinitely, insufficient funds,
the jaws of a rattlesnake, bad jar of beans, karma, knife-wound,
lash of sunlight, lily of the valley, measles, mosquitos, nightmares,
the promise of Oregon, an oasis being my heat-pickled brain, the
pioneer life, quarrels, questions, quitting, risks, my toothpick
schooner riding over rocks, river crossings, starvation, stupid shit,
typhoid, terrible luck, twisted lung, unarmed + under-fire, ushered
again into violence, vanity, vengeance, very wet-behind-the-ears, the
weather, want, wishful thinking, X marking the spot, yes when it was
no, yellow flowers, the zigzag of the computer mouse, zooming over
information, zero communication, your belief in me.
ABOUT THE POET
Kieron Walquist (he/they) is a queer, neurospicy poet + visual artist from
mid-Missouri. He holds an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis + is
currently a PhD candidate at the University of Utah. Their work has received
support from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Monson Arts, +
Vermont Studio Center. LOVE LOCKS, their first chapbook, is out with
Quarterly West. He lives in Salt Lake City.
ABOUT SUGAR HOUSE REVIEW
We loved reading the work that we’ve published (clearly), and we want an
opportunity to better hear our contributors. We're featuring audio recordings of
poems from our pages, read by the poet. This an open invitation to all contributors
from any of our issues, we were delighted to print your work, now we’re eager to
hear it.
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