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Happening on the Kolb Studio While Walking the South Rim

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on June 11, 2015| 3 Comments »

Wearing their life vests made of cork
the Kolb brothers rowed their canvas boat
down the Colorado River.
I watched them on scratchy black and white film.
It was different then—no dams,
no crowds—only no different.
Humpback chub and pinyon jay,
mule deer and cliff rose,
ponderosa pine, white roar
of the rapids and two billion years
of geologic record.
Revelation must be passed through
with the whole body,
though the brothers were not looking
for revelation. They were looking for,
well, only they can say, and they are gone.
I did not intend to travel to their home
at the edge of the cliff,
but when I found their legend,
I felt an uplift, a collision, a drifting apart.
Is that, too, what revelation is? I swallowed
their story as if it might carve me,
undermine any harder layers
so they might collapse,
might erode me into whatever
is essential, a woman who longs
to launch herself into the flow,
no matter how flimsy
her protection, no matter
how loud, how unruly it is.

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Nine from the Grand Canyon

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , on June 10, 2015| 3 Comments »

driving west
past the petrified forest
thoughts speed north

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scent of cliff rose
here in the desert
my prickles soften

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Kaibab Trail switchbacks
with each step the minute hands
fall off the clock

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this enormous life
somehow I make it fit
into a chair

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patch of blue
a tease before the hardest rains—
hope makes a crummy raincoat

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an ant never
walks backward—
learning to love like that

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what river even now
erodes all these grand layers—
woman standing beside the canyon

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night of rain
morning of more rain
even my dreams get wet

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journey of 800 miles
just one more stitch
in eternity

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