old streams
“old streams from which the water’s vanished are interesting, I mean that kind of tale, water, like spirit, jostling hard stuff around to make speech into one if its realest expressions” A.R. Ammons, If anything will level you water will
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June 12
Woke late to frank sun dry hills teeming with passerines and one hoarse quail panting out its love. How foreign, to let it go unspoken, not to sing out from break of dawn as if your very heart were bursting— In the shade a dove’s cool notes, cicadas starting up, even the breeze in the sagebrush discontented until it too is heard
ausencia
“Absence is a house so vast that inside you will pass through its walls and hang pictures on the air” sonnet XCIV, Pablo Neruda
October 2
A gray sky day, comforting, glowering. CAUTION falling rocks is what the sign says at the site next door, mass excavation. Some ivy vine or sort of tree is revealed to be climbing the wall of the building that is staying, for now, in flat 2D, charcoal, with just a hint of relief– it looks like rivers it looks like veins it looks like life does find a way, just so often hidden, not […]
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