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KAWEAH BRODIAEA

Posted on August 10, 2014 by | 3 comments

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Thought extinct, it survives
grazing hooves and drought
to stop development.

 

 

“Discovering Kaweah Brodiaea” May 5, 2012

WPC(1) — “Texture”

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FERAL CASTING

Posted on August 8, 2014 by | Leave a comment

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Rising within the civilized
with untamed dreams
ready in my mind.

 

 

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Upon Reflection

Posted on August 7, 2014 by | 1 comment

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Three reflections of downtown Victoria’s bright colors and herd of humans being themselves, I was a shutter-bugging fool.

 

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AUGUST REVERIES

Posted on August 6, 2014 by | 5 comments

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My brown-skinned girl,
each dusty draw
seems softer, shadows

linger longer at the dawn
as the sun moves south
down ridgelines.

I begin to hear
the faint sound
of a light rain, early

on the roof—the musty
smell of it awakening
a primal surge of new life

for old veins on guard
for the slightest sign
telegraphed ahead

of a train in my mind
mesmerized by rivulets
finding their own way

to the creek running
into spring. Cottonwoods’
first yellow leaves

gathered by rolling gusts
up and down canyon—
you say you feel it too.

 

 

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Good Times

Posted on August 5, 2014 by | 3 comments

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ARBUTUS

Posted on August 4, 2014 by | 5 comments
Empress Hotel

Empress Hotel

 

The old trees wear scars well,
grab and hold the earth
together better than sapling

wood bending with each recent
gust, or so we say with ages
packed beneath our peeling bark

delicately exposing what we could
not young. Not nimble dilettantes,
we take our wine in gulps for pain,

for all that has been lost–
that we will surely follow
to the fire, warming as always,

toil by toil until we become
bucketed gray ash to be stirred
and washed into the hungry heart

of soil. These old trees stand
their ground to wait with memory
and dream, always almost there.

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Butchart Gardens

Posted on August 2, 2014 by | 3 comments

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Reclamation of a limestone quarry in Victoria begun in 1907, the gardens receive over a million visitors each year.

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Butchart Gardens

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Traveling with the Band

Posted on August 1, 2014 by | 6 comments

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THE TROUBLE WITH DRONES

Posted on July 30, 2014 by | 3 comments

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The Red Tails lift and glide above me,
circling our gather within oak trees, chemise
and fractured granite that hasn’t moved

for centuries on this mountain. One of few
humans they know, I have wished
upon their wings and eye, like a falconer,

to inform, to lead me to what I can’t see
grazing peacefully. Someday, maybe—
or resort to drones to do my bidding,

watch the calving, check feed and water,
be on patrol for coyotes and bears,
instead of me. But who would we be,

streaming sci-fi cowboy poetry? Who
would ever know enough to welcome us
into this other world, their home?

 

 

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WPC(3)—HONKERS

Posted on July 29, 2014 by | 3 comments

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From somewhere north
they arrive together
for the summer—lovin’ it.

 

 

WPC(3)—”Summer Lovin'”

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