Archive for March, 2011

Fishing, Eastern Oregon, July, 2007

Posted: 15 March 2011 in Poetry

Fishing, Eastern Oregon, July, 2007 It is my favorite memory To take out And dust off And hold up to the light To rotate in its gyroscopic frame The morning, cool And the deep, fishless water Next to a camping couple Who did not want us there And that overlook, past where you used to [...]

Metamorphosis Six days of silence and rest And on the seventh day A walk Up a mountain in the dark There, looking east, Day broke upon them And scattered blooming shards In an ever-expanding arc of light Two billion sparks and more; no fear–yet There, Moses on Sinai and Elijah on Horeb: Heard the Name [...]