{"id":53220,"date":"2019-09-19T03:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-in-motion-on-the-equinox\/"},"modified":"2019-09-19T03:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:00:00","slug":"writers-weir-in-motion-on-the-equinox","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/life\/writers-weir-in-motion-on-the-equinox\/","title":{"rendered":"Writers’ Weir: In Motion on the Equinox"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dedicated to Alaskan fatbike innovators:<\/em><\/p>\n

Steve Baker – Mark Gronewald – John Evingson – Simon Rakower<\/em><\/p>\n

I swipe past somber social media posts<\/p>\n

and I’m stoked for what I’ve planned to do.<\/p>\n

Inside the garage, I dust off my seat<\/p>\n

gleefully strap the robust wheels to my hatch.<\/p>\n

Launching into a boreal riding spell<\/p>\n

I tear out mudslinging the low hanging sun.<\/p>\n

On a frame prototyped by Alaskans<\/p>\n

I have ability to float above snow.<\/p>\n

Through muskeg and crowded conifer akin<\/p>\n

I am surefooted on this frosty surface.<\/p>\n

Across a globe equally in balance<\/p>\n

where lucent day is proportionate to night.<\/p>\n

Witness to galactic spin and influence<\/p>\n

Earth and sun face one another with regard.<\/p>\n

Shadowed dormancy makes birds voyage on<\/p>\n

and astronomical weather changes blow in.<\/p>\n

Furbearers fatten and morph in color<\/p>\n

hemispheres reflect congruent symmetry.<\/p>\n

I raise my heartbeat in a toast to shifts<\/p>\n

as subsolar rays enter Virgo then south.<\/p>\n

The Mayan snake slithers down Mexican stairs<\/p>\n

I trail over jagged roots, slush and tranquil ice.<\/p>\n

Tires spin in sync with heliocentricy<\/p>\n

satellite communications sever.<\/p>\n

In tribute, I break societal chatter<\/p>\n

to saddle the calm balance inside of me.<\/p>\n

— Amy Pinney<\/em><\/p>\n

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\u2022 The Capital City Weekly accepts submissions of poetry, fiction and nonfiction for Writers\u2019 Weir. To submit a piece for consideration, email us at editor@capweek.com.<\/em><\/b><\/p>\n

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