if you ever feel guilty of anger and the bridges you burn take flight to the forests remember the woodpecker carving its ruckus and building its home in the kind of damage only you can sow 1.16.2023
Remember the Woodpecker
if you ever feel guilty of anger and the bridges you burn take flight to the forests remember the woodpecker carving its ruckus and building its home in the kind of damage only you can sow 1.16.2023
Caleb Ferganchick is a rural, queer, slam poet activist and author of The Secret of Sunflowers (2021) and Poetry Heels (2018). His work has been featured and published by Western Colorado Writer’s Forum (2021), South Broadway Ghost Society (2020, 2021), “Slam Ur Ex ((the podcast))” (2020), and the Colorado Mesa University Literary Review. He organizes the annual Slamming Bricks poetry slam competition in honor of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and serves as a board member for Western Colorado Writer’s Form and Mutual Aid Partners. A SUP river guide and speech and debate coach, Caleb also dreams of establishing a queer commune with a river otter rescue and falconry. He lives in Grand Junction, Colorado. View more posts
Caleb Ferganchick