09/16/2015
Josh Spilker+: "You’re going back on the road, right? What’s that like?"
JW: "Driving thru Kansas storms late at night. You can’t see all that empty in the absence of light. Then purple lightning spider webs across the sky and you can suddenly see everything for miles.
Hitchhiking thru Vermont is quick. Fall there is beautiful. All the hills / mountains / forests along I-89 look like they’re burning. Within ten minutes of the first time I stuck my thumb out, two federal agents harassed me, seeing if I was a runaway or something. I was in a way, but not the minor they were hoping I was. This was in White River Jct. Right as the sun began to set, my first ride snagged me. This guy made unwanted sexual advances on me. I pulled a knife, and was let off in Brattleboro.
In Brattleboro, I fell in love with a woman who picked me up. We ended up dating, and bopped around together for a long time.
Pennsylvania was full of paranoia and fear. I was terrified of a man with a machete who I was convinced was out to kill me. He was just having fun. If he was out to kill me, he would have. But I was 18 and terrified, and madly in love with the woman who’d picked me up. She was friends with him before he snapped.
The Grand Canyon is imagination manifested as a physical place. Big Sur looks like someone else’s Eden."
Read the full interview below:
http://joshspilker.com/hey-we-do-this-an-interview-with-jeremiah-walton-of-nostrovia/
Always on the road, always writing, and always making, Jeremiah Walton and the Nostrovia! crew are poetry in the raw. They're not afraid of where words might take us. I asked Jeremiah a bunch of st...
