HERON: MONTEREY WHARF, CALIFORNIA Heron, hunchbacked, Drab chapel-grey, Bedraggled loner, Still as a statue On guard, staring Away and stood In a calmness Perfected since birth. What is a moment In unbothered composure? The ridiculous legs, The ungainly posture, The...
AFTERMATH Big Sur, California, May 2009 Phosphorescent green flickers against wet dark, fire in another tongue Memorials of trees, stripped bare, black as mummies, stand witness Leaf-laden alders, parchment ghosts, testify in blanched whispers Our dead...
TEAHO– USE IN THE JAPANESE GARDEN The young man and the ancient Japanese flute make sounds like breath and wind, like rain and river, make sounds that soar—like birds— sounds that sing— toward evening’s silence, sounds we are told, of water dripping— from...
Talk by matusf *** The Talk SEPTEMBER 1955 In a town as small as Fernald, rumors blew like milkweed blasted from a broken pod. Customers whispered while waiting in Carson’s checkout line. Employees snaking through the entrance and exit stiles of the atomic plant...
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