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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

Strength


As consciousness persuades the strong-of-spirit
toward ranching, alfalfa is irrigated

along the low bluffs above this exceptional river
where cottonwoods crowd the sandy banks—

a shade of green foreign to this country
grows where sage and rabbit brush

have lingered, drifting toward these
yellow foothills content to rise

below white-faced mesas spotted with
dark brush.  The mindful raise up

their hands in praise and wonder, unable
to ponder the odd fiber of this existence.




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