"POET LAUREATE TIMOTHY PILGRIM: Little adobe something-or-other in Santa Fe"

High on Adventure's Poet Laureate
Timothy Pilgrim

SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER 2025,
OUR 30TH YEAR

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ADVENTURE POETRY
By Timothy Pilgrim

Little adobe something-or-other in Santa Fe
(with a nod to Alex Vouri)

If it does not work out, that dream
each time your lover leaves — buy

a fleet of taco trucks, nubile teens
working Seattle streets, then kick back

since you don't have a damn thing
to worry about — one option would be

hitchhike southwest, roll out your bag
in dark desert, lie face up

inhale the moon, the whole Milky Way
actually wake up at sunrise

explore arroyos, red cliffs, ruins
more important than your life

inhale smoke from burning sage
breathe deep, get a meaningful job

save your pay, buy a little adobe
something-or-other in Santa Fe.

(first published by Cirque)

Adobe house

	Timothy Pilgrim, a native of Montana and retired university journalism professor living in Bellingham, WA, is a Pacific Northwest poet and 2018 Pushcart Prize nominee. His poems have been accepted more than 500 times by journals such as *Toasted Cheese, Mad Swirl, Cirque, Santa Ana River Review, Windsor Review, Hobart, Otoliths* and *Prole Press* in the U.S. Canada, Australia and the United Kingdom. He is the author of *Mapping Water* and Seduced by metaphor: Timothy Pilgrim collected published poems, which the back cover calls “a 10 on any Richter imagination scale.”