"POET LAUREATE TIMOTHY PILGRIM: The Capes We Wear"

High on Adventure's Poet Laureate
Timothy Pilgrim

JULY/AUGUST 2023, OUR 27TH YEAR

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By Timothy Pilgrim

The capes we wear

Superman tattooed on one arm,
Batman taking up the other,

original Wonder Woman on thigh,
you leave her, heinous, behind,

steer for Montana, last best place
to escape. Wine in cooler, extra capes

in the trunk, you hum I’d do anything
for love (but I won’t do that),

reach Missoula, Sula, Lost Trail Pass.
You batmobile hard into the Big Hole,

keep sharp lookout for evil in cutoffs.
Wisdom is a speck in the distance.

(published by Mad Swirl; republished in Best of Mad Swirl: 2020)

Colorado Mountains, painting by Mary Dale
Mountains, painting by Mary Dale

	Timothy Pilgrim, a native of Montana and retired university journalism professor living in Bellingham, WA, is a Pacific Northwest poet and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been accepted more than 500 times by journals such as Toasted Cheese, Mad Swirl, Cirque, Santa Ana River Review, Windsor Review, Hobart, Otoliths and Prole Press in the U.S. Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is the author of *Mapping water* and Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems, which the back cover calls “a 10 on any Richter imagination scale.”