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AFTER RAIN

Posted on February 9, 2015 by | 12 comments

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Sun sets on the sighs
that cling to wet hills grinning
color into clouds.

 

 

WPC(3) — “Scale”

 

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Rain

Posted on February 8, 2015 by | 9 comments
4:00 p.m., February 7, 2015

4:00 p.m., February 7, 2015

 

 

WPC(2) — “Scale”

 

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LONE PINE, CA

Posted on February 7, 2015 by | 6 comments

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This close to heaven,
just below the timberline
pine trees climb and wait.

 

 

WPC(1) — “Scale”

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Ramblin’ Jack

Posted on January 24, 2015 by | 11 comments

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I’ll be thinking of my friend Jack this coming week in Elko, Nevada, one of the first hands I shook at the National Cowboy Poetry Gathering in 1989, as we waited to get our schedule of sessions, poetry and song. I had to introduce myself, having watched him perform at the Ashgrove many times in the late 60s. Our direct link to Woody Guthrie and the pure heart of the working man, he’s been magically expressing himself on stage for over 60 years.

 

 

WPC — “Express Yourself”

 

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IMAGINATION

Posted on January 19, 2015 by | 6 comments

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How easily she could say,
‘it’s all in your mind—’
deny, dismiss what she knew

could be true, if we let it
when we were children
pretending to be grown up—

playing games
with our imaginations,
mornings drumming music

on eucalyptus roots
before the school bus stopped
our spontaneous chants.

With rusty tools and sticks,
horse drawn relics
and Model T wrecks

we took off for town—
took turns driving
wild steeds or hot rod cars

depending on time—just
as much as we wanted
to get there.

 

 

WPC(4) — “Serenity”

 

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FIDDLENECK

Posted on January 18, 2015 by | 9 comments

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Looking back at tracks in the clouds,
you spring the gate closed—
trapped forever.

 

 

WPC(3) — “Serenity”

 

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CLARKIA ENHANCED

Posted on January 17, 2015 by | 2 comments

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Unfolding into space, hills
from peaks to plains unending
time beyond and past

the horizons of this moment
resting among the eroded
where I am near-nothing,

these specks of rock
spread out before me
like petals opening—

my nakedness
laid bare
as part of the landscape.

 

 

WPC(2) — “Serenity”

 

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BLACK TAILED KITE

Posted on January 17, 2015 by | 15 comments

 

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Fence of my youth still standing
where birds of prey rest,
repair for soaring.

 

 

WPC(1) — “Serenity”

 

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ECHINOPSIS AT DAWN

Posted on January 11, 2015 by | 7 comments

 

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Not a shadow without light,
brief morning flowers
from the blackest night.

 

 

WPC(2) — “Shadowed”

 

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GLOAMING

Posted on January 10, 2015 by | 16 comments

 

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Lifting our eyes to Sulphur Peak,
long days hurry
into poetry.

 

 

WPC(1) — “Shadowed”

 

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