The sky is parched.
The landscape is scorched.
Brown and gray hang in the air
suspended on shimmering wire.
At night the coyotes lament…
At daybreak life melts into what remains of shadow. Cool slips from memory,
water abandons the mirage
green is consigned to myth.
Soon memory, mirage, myth
will lie face down in the streambed
swallowing the dust where it all began.
That night the coyotes shall remain silent.
The earth will breathe relief
and wait for the return of morning rain. http://youtu.be/-jkYgbO1kRU
The landscape is scorched.
Brown and gray hang in the air
suspended on shimmering wire.
At night the coyotes lament…
At daybreak life melts into what remains of shadow. Cool slips from memory,
water abandons the mirage
green is consigned to myth.
Soon memory, mirage, myth
will lie face down in the streambed
swallowing the dust where it all began.
That night the coyotes shall remain silent.
The earth will breathe relief
and wait for the return of morning rain. http://youtu.be/-jkYgbO1kRU
Poetry on the run 
link broken 😦
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awww, the vagaries of the interweb…
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okay, i figured it out, i think, and maybe the link is fixed.
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all good now, yes! also, really digging the environmentalist tone you’ve taken of late…
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i have been reading some poetry by Mary Oliver and Marianne Moore and they have me thinking about the natural world as a subject…as i say in the poem Nature i don’t know much but i am trying to learn…i find poetry much easier to read than text books so i am going to the school of poetry. i can highly recommend Mary Oliver’s “American Primitive”…seeing as how it won the Pulitzer and a bunch of other awards.
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/mary-oliver#about or on you tube for some awesome readings by herself.
…i was so excited to be able to use what i have learned about coltsfoot, and blazing star flowers and bees in some of my poems…anyway, that’s what is going on.
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I really like this. Great visuals. Title sets you up with expectations that are surprised.
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I am really glad you didn’t say “unpleasantly” surprised.
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