Phillip Barron
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Phillip Barron
@phillip.bsky.social
Cyclist, poet, professor
Portland, OR
Thanks to Tyler McMahon and the editors at Hawai'i Pacific Review for publishing my poem, "On Being" hawaiipacificreview.org/2025/02/24/o...
On Being
by Phillip Barron Come home tired walk in legs sore hungry fold a sandwich and get one episode deeper into the show I tell no one I watch then scroll and tap and read and when I uncross one foot
hawaiipacificreview.org
February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I wonder who Elon is
January 10, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Thanks to the editors at Espacio Fronterizo for publishing this little story/prose/poem/thing which is about nothing.
espaciofronterizo.com/borderland/d...
Desert Landscapes–part 1 | Phillip Barron
The problem is that no matter where I begin this story its beginning will bias you and I want you to remain unbiased as long as possible, as long as I still have details to give you before you decide ...
espaciofronterizo.com
November 29, 2023 at 8:43 PM
CHARLES MUDEDE on The Problem with Proving, Again and Again, That Portland and Seattle Are Not Dying - "situation benefits the right because we on the left end up defending not the homeless but the idea that business activity and growth are what matter."

www.portlandmercury.com/opinion/2023...
September 2, 2023 at 12:24 AM
I love the clear days when Mt Rainier (to the left of Mt St Helens) is visible from Portland.
July 4, 2023 at 2:52 AM
If you were among the 1% then you too would see that the best use of your wealth is to ride in a windowless can to an inhospitable graveyard for hundreds of others who made the news in their day as victims of a technological catastrophe.
June 22, 2023 at 9:42 PM
"There have been attempts to make the country more amenable to cyclists—New York is currently trying to install a new suite of protected bike lanes, as is Seattle—but these cities are pushing against decades of ossified infrastructure policy. It’s a paradox that leads to bizarre lapses in judgment"
Of All the Things to Get Ticketed for—Really, New York? This?
I have to believe that someday soon the revolution will be at hand, and we’ll collectively reach a higher consciousness.
slate.com
June 22, 2023 at 5:29 PM
June 22, 2023 at 9:03 AM
Molalla River, greening back after the Beachie Creek Fire of 2020
June 21, 2023 at 11:30 PM