Notes
Photographs on pages 1 and 5 by the author.
Photograph on page 4 from Art Halloran’s The Nature Man’s Stories of the Wichita Mountains, independently published in 1972. Text from the House Subcommittee on Fisheries and Wildlife Conservation of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries proceedings on transferring part of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge to Fort Sill in 1956.
Pages 4 and 5 contain fragments from articles by KSWO News. The memorial on page 4 is a real one at a trailhead in the Wichitas. Dr. Mitchell died while climbing in the Rock Rooms on Elk Mountain. The rappelling sites listed are real.
The Wichita Mountains belong to the Indigenous nations who have lived and continue to live in the area now designated as southwestern Oklahoma, including the Wichita, Comanche, Kiowa, and Cheyenne-Arapaho nations.
from A Wichita Mountains Ontology (DocuPoetics) PDF version – SETH COPELAND:
Seth Copeland has edited petrichor since 2016. His poems can be found in Poet Lore, Seneca Review, Puerto del Sol, Yalobusha Review, and Jet Fuel Review, among others. He is a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and co-host of Tabi Po Poetry in Milwaukee.
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