Welcome to Moonhome

moonhome(n.) waters where the setting moon makes its bed

Coming to Tacoma as a student four years ago, I was left in awe by the immense beauty of the landscape, where the industrial and organic overlap like collage. As I will soon be leaving, I wanted to create something in honor of this place and its beauty--a parting gift, I guess.

Poetry as a medium can crystalize fleeting memory into words, and I think this quality makes it ideal for celebrating a landscape. Poets view their surroundings from myriad lines of sight, and through their words, rivers and valleys refract into countless images. There are infinite ways of remembering a mountain. And so, I created this poetry scavenger hunt as a way to bring the work of local poets off of the page and into the wild.

There are seven poems scattered around Ruston Way and the North End. Here's a map with their general locations--enjoy the search!

If you're interested in reading more work by Tacoma poets, check out Voices of Tacoma, Fallow, and In Tahoma's Shadow. All of these works are available to borrow through the Tacoma Public Library.