"POET LAUREATE TIMOTHY PILGRIM: Eclectic suitcase"

High on Adventure's Poet Laureate
Timothy Pilgrim

JULY/AUGUST 2022, OUR 26TH YEAR

HOME PAST ISSUES WHO WE ARE CONTACT

ADVERNTURE POETRY
By Timothy Pilgrim

Eclectic suitcase

Masked, virus to flee, hurried pack
for flight back, laundry flung

into any bag. My socks, jeans, briefs,
your dresses, skirts, undies,

bras. Totally inconsiderate, teddies,
shirts in one wad. A thousand years

from now — confusion.
Archaeologists at plane-crash dig,

sifting boxers, panties, tees,
perplexed at what it could mean.

(published by Otoliths)

Tuscany Landscape
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.”