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These are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the resonant past that is with us yet. And they are about a kind of stillness that has become rare in modern life, the stillness of a man who actually inhabits his senses.

from "Some Guardian Spirit"

Freezing fog, visibility maybe a hundred yards.

Frost builds up on the pine needles,

the yellow grass, the leafless cottonwoods

and the sound of hammers, saws,

a compressor kicking on and off

in that other world somewhere across

the pasture. Not a bird or a squirrel or a horse

in sight. A rooster and a lone dog

send their voices out into the fog that seems

to be closing in, growing denser, a cloud

barge drifting down the valley spiriting us away.

Four Swans: Poems

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These are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the... Read more

    Publisher: Lynx House Press
    Publication Date: 29/01/2013
    ISBN13: 9780899241272, 978-0899241272
    ISBN10: 0899241271

    Number of Pages: 80

    Fiction , Poetry

    Description

    These are mature poems, meditative, curious about the world of wild mountains and streams, about death and blessing, about the resonant past that is with us yet. And they are about a kind of stillness that has become rare in modern life, the stillness of a man who actually inhabits his senses.

    from "Some Guardian Spirit"

    Freezing fog, visibility maybe a hundred yards.

    Frost builds up on the pine needles,

    the yellow grass, the leafless cottonwoods

    and the sound of hammers, saws,

    a compressor kicking on and off

    in that other world somewhere across

    the pasture. Not a bird or a squirrel or a horse

    in sight. A rooster and a lone dog

    send their voices out into the fog that seems

    to be closing in, growing denser, a cloud

    barge drifting down the valley spiriting us away.

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