Poetry by Bill Yake

Photograph by Greg Darms.

"In it, the oak, warbler wings flick like mica;
needles on little pines glitter in the backlight.
Hallowed or disrespected, the land goes on stolid -
shows no agony, no fear but our own."

From Searching for Lew Welch’s Cabin

Full Length Poetry Collection:
This Old Riddle: Cormorants and Rain (2004, Radiolarian Press) - $12
+ shipping & sales tax
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Chapbooks:
Confluence (1995, Radiolarian Press) - $8
Givin’ Critters Short Shrift (1996, Radiolarian Press) - $4


Scatter Creek Press
4032 Green Cove St. NW
Olympia WA 98502-3520


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Bill Yake's poetry has been published in Wilderness Magazine, Wild Earth, Fine Madness, Puerto del Sol, the Seattle Review, convolvulus, Willow Springs, and several anthologies.


Copyright © 1998 by Bill Yake. All rights reserved.