Grant Clauser is the author of five books, including Muddy Dragon on the Road to Heaven (winner of the Codhill Press Poetry Award) and Reckless Constellations (winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award). Poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Journal, Southern Poetry Review, Rattle, Tar River Poetry, and others. He works as an editor and teaches at Rosemont College.
Nature’s Nature
May/June 2022
The Proper Application of First Aid in the Wild
Trouble the wound to heal itself. Trouble the earth, the river, this starry night bleeding with animal eyes. Trouble the trees to not shed their leaves before fall, to fall […]
May/June 2022
Proper Use of Knots in the Wild
One end goes around the lodgepole pine, one through the loop, two half hitches secure the ridgepole, three bind the devil. A bowline can get you down a cliff face, […]