Taylor Brorby

Climbing Buttes

A man climbs buttes in western North Dakota, wondering if he’s a force of good or evil.

Climbing Buttes - Poem
Jonathan Hiskes

Holden Village Journal

Sunday We are on the boat, our family, barreling north into a sea of granite peaks. Before us spreads the gleaming surface of Lake Chelan, a fifty-one-mile gash cutting deep into the Cascade Mountains. To our right, the eastern foothills flow by, sun-browned in the August heat. They lie hulking like knuckles on a fist. […]