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American Summer
Poems written while traveling.
Western Utah
Yellow bunches of desert grass align the highway. The desert offers its barren expanse: brown hills and flats, low shrubs. On US 6 & 50 time stands inchoate, unchanging. Time and time immemorial, we reach the flashpoint of our lives accompanied by dwarf power poles and a misplaced predilection— the Siever Lake bed on our left, the Wah Wahs rising up behind, brown, desiccant in the mock cloud cover. back | ToC | next
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