Running for Your Life: Country Lines

The idea is to keep your eyes, your ears open … What did Henry James say? Strive to be someone upon whom nothing is lost …

“In the morning light, a caterpillar is hanging by a thread,

bobbing and squirming and zig-zagging in the summer heat.

‘now that’s core strength,’ K says, then

‘poison, don’t touch it,’

with your finger, exposed flesh.”

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“We’ve slashed, machete’d dead

limbs, rangy branches, topped by thin-point leaves,

like a desert plant, but no, this is too true north for olive trees,

And behind, the hidden figures of (his/her) place,

Mustard-yellow willow and the dead-spacey little green apple tree,

Two hummingbirds touch down, flit to orange blossoms, a gold finch, fat cardinal,

the telltale ‘cheep,’ what was covered, enmeshed, the mountain stream bank,

a wand touch upon the River Styx, where darkness, fright had spilled, before we cleared the brush

and let the light in.”


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