Nostalgia, Naturally
A collection of poems
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For want of a corner By: Tyler Pedersen Silvery soft Steely strong Thirteen thousand Wispy chains entwined In the glare of the sun Sway crystals of dew Dangling down through Threaded silicon Contrived in the abdomen Pulled out of a gland Clinging On hold Then released again Such persistence From a wind smote Geometric polygon Amid all the tension Of brooms and paranoia Whoever did notice An invisible thread Escaping time in the attic A cobweb Aging with dust, mildew and rot Sticking to faces long since forgot For when houses collapse And our presence fades No one that owns Nothing to save Yet for want of a corner I’ll bet you will find A cluster of silk That’s just been refined
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My book of poetry and photographs explores Montana’s wild places and is written with a spirit that cultivates a caring relationship between humans and nature.
About the Author
Tyler Pedersen is an avid photographer, poet, ecologist, bookworm, blogger, nature enthusiast and runner from Helena, Montana. He has self-published one book of poetry titled, “Nostalgia, Naturally,” through Authorhouse & in 2013 he created & curated a Freshly Pressed WordPress Blog called, "The Ancient Eavesdropper." His specialties are concrete poetry (e.g., sculpting words into all sorts of shapes) and free verse. As an ecologist, Tyler has performed a wide range of field work jobs including tracking endangered and threatened rattlesnakes and turtles in Illinois, trapping small mammals in Eastern Montana, blazing trails in Western Montana and Idaho and coring trees in the sub-alpine forests of Wyoming and Colorado. In 2006, he graduated from the University of Montana with a major in Ecology and minor in Art History and criticism. After college, he served two years in Americorps as an Montana Conservation Corps crew member in Helena, Montana and Biodiversity Conservation Coordinator for the City of Gresham, Oregon. For the last 4 years,Tyler worked at the Coos Watershed Association, a non-profit watershed council, in Coos Bay, Oregon. Here, he managed and implemented riparian and wetland restoration projects, collected and analyzed field data and wrote reports and $1,000,000 worth of successfully-funded grant proposals. He also spent a considerable time controlling and mapping invasive plants like Japanese knotweed, gorse and purple loosestrife. Presently, he lives with his wife, two cats & two dogs in Corvallis, Oregon.