Ode to Yellowstone | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut

Coyotes lope nearby us
In needled hush. Perhaps we’ll
spy a bison or a bear.
Eureka—wild things, oh wild things!
 
Throngs of us make million clicks
pilfering bits of grandeur,
grace, fright, delight. Let’s take awe
back with us—live it one more time.
 
We want to drink the lakes up,
lug boulders home and mound them
round memories of feral
places, old and otherworldly.
 
Multitudes of greedy feet
traipse and trek across your face.
Scraping, scaring splendor—
we brush aside our recklessness.

Indian Review | Author | Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. Visit us to read more…

Sandra Rokoff-Lizut, retired educator and children’s book author (published by Macmillan, Holt Reinhart & Winston, and Hallmark Inc.), is currently both a printmaker and poet. She is a member of Oregon Poetry Association, Mary’s Peak Poets, Poetic License, Gertrude’s, and a weekly writing salon. Rokoff-Lizut volunteers, by teaching poetry to middle-schoolers, at the Boys and Girls Club in Corvallis, Oregon. She also studies poetry Oregon State University. Previous publications include Illya’s Honey, The Bicycle Review, Wilderness House Review, The Tower Journal, The Penwood Review, and Wild Goose Poetry Review.