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Online journal capturing the moment and the memory of moments. A meadow meditation.
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L'aura del campo


'é a lua, é a lua, na quintana dos mortos'
♣ Federico García Lorca ♣


Higgins Street Bridge, April 25th  2009, Missoula, Montana


L'aura del campo. A breeze in the meadow. So it began the last day of Spring, 2005; on the 16th day of the month of Light of the year 162. This is a supplement to my daily journal written to a friend, my muse; notes I do not share. Here I will share what the breeze has whispered to me.

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IN MEMORIUM

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passed away November 12, 2005

Please visit her port to read her poems and her writings.
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Along Route 56 in Southwest Kansas, July 2004.
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 Kåre *Leaf5* Enga
~ until everything was rainbow, rainbow, rainbow! And I let the fish go.
~ Elizabeth Bishop,
The Fish
April 22, 2020 at 6:05pm
April 22, 2020 at 6:05pm
#981768
Or maybe a letter in poetic form? I dunno. I just felt a need to write this.

A letter to ... from an icy place

This river doesn't flow into the Mississippi.
The people here are barely friendly.
I owe you an apology.

The anger wells up within me, overflows
and those downriver brave the flood
or get washed away.

Once, there was a lake here plugged by ice.
When the dam broke it took all the dirt with it,
scraped the scablands bare.

Montana's loss became Oregon's gains.
Washington still feels the pain.
The Palouse turns green in between.

Not everything is zero-sum, or black and white
or even I'm wrong, You're right.
I'd prefer win-win.

But an apology may not be enough to cross this gulf.
My angry sails catch sulfuric breezes.
No one needs more acid in their life.

I may have to wait until I figure this out
by looking within. I'll give you a shout
once I know.

No, the folks who live along the lungs of America:
the Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Ohio,
they know.

All kindness flows with the mud and sand and silt
(but not my anger, shame and guilt)
into the bosom of Mississippi.

KE [177.46] (22.april.2020)


April 22, 2020 at 1:22am
April 22, 2020 at 1:22am
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On the Clark Fork of the Columbia River

Back-clad
kayakers
wrapped
in rainbow-
colored kayaks
sit
in the curl
of the wave,
riding
a flow
that caresses
the willows
never again
to pass
this way.

Fly-fisherman
wade
in cold-dark
shallows,
luring fish
hidden
behind big rocks;
patient herons
hunt
for minnows;
hungry ospreys
dive
for bass,
careful
to not be
swept away.

This river
completes
its mission
today
and every day.
Nothing
gets in its way.

KE [177.45] (21.april.2020)



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