Timothy Pilgrim
High on Adventure's Poet Laureate
Timothy Pilgrim

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025,
OUR 29TH YEAR
 
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ADVENTURE POETRY
By Timothy Pilgrim
  
   
 

Mime

 

 

 

 

 

Speechless

Farmer market, spring, subdued town,
I pass a shivering mime, her still grip
tight on a phone. I read its screen —
white letters, five pale lines,
hushed words — almost a poem.
Lives long for voice, touch
home. Reach out, risk, love
be bright flames — dance
to the end together, not alone.
I leave, shop farm-stands, buy, return.
She smiles, drinks the quiet coffee,
devours my silent slice of pie.
 
     
  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.”