Swung from the toes out, Belly-breath riding on the knuckle… The ten-pound maul lifts up, Sails in an arc overhead, And then lifts you!

Clearing the mind and sliding in to that created space, a web of waters steaming over rock… air misty but not raining, seeing this land from a boat on a…

Beat-up datsun idling in the road shreds of fog almost-vertical hillsides drop awa… huge stumps fading into mist soft warm rain

All this new stuff goes on top turn it over, turn it over wait and water down from the dark bottom turn it inside out

Hammering a dent out of a bucket a woodpecker answers from the woods

Siwashing it out once in Siuslaw… I slept under rhododendron All night blossoms fell Shivering on a sheet of cardboar… Feet stuck in my pack

One granite ridge A tree, would be enough Or even a rock, a small creek, A bark shred in a pool. Hill beyond hill, folded and twist…

Washing Kai in the sauna, The kerosene lantern set on a box outside the ground-level window, Lights up the edge of the iron sto… washtub down on the slab

It comes blundering over the Boulders at night, it stays Frightened outside the Range of my campfire I go to meet it at the

At the last turn in the path “goodbye—” —bending, bowing, (moss and a bit of wild

Owl calls, pollen dust blows Swirl of light strokes writhing knot-tying light paths,

Standing at the baggage passing ti… Austin Texas airport—my ride hasn… My former wife is making websites… one son’s seldom seen, the other one and his wife have a…