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American Summer
Poems written while traveling.
Tomb and Temple
As the sky fills with anima-shaped clouds a glorious landscape is emphatically revealed. In muted colors, in ancient geologies, in arcane precipitation something falls and rises through the crumbling sand, stone and dust as monument to some celestial warrior-kings. Ponder the architect and his heady plan. Ponder those who died as builders, the thousand down-trodden ones: the afternoon sets them up as they gather in pilgrimage, rising overhead. back | ToC | next
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