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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Salmon River Courtesy 


Snow still retreating from the fissures in
the Sawtooth Mountains.  Dusk still a long

way off; the beauty immediate.  The Salmon River
issues by and sings to us her long, long song.

July extends its kindness
as cow herds drift on broad, distant pastures.

Rising calm.  Rising transparence, distance
corralled.  An angel lifts a softball past

the outfield fence;  the small crowd cheers.
A stony magic fills the umbra.  How vaporous

my daughters are—a trance magic—
as they drift from our sulphur pool.




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