I’m excited to announce that my poem, Petrified, is included in the Washington Poetic Routes map, which was created by Claudia Castro Luna, our Washington State Poet Laureate (2018-2020). My little red dot represents Vantage, Washington, specifically the Gingko Petrified Forest State Park/Wanapum Recreational Area. When I first visited in 2016 for my book, WA IS WATER, I was taken by the panoramic views, stunning petroglyphs and the silver blue of the Columbia River. A sense