Thursday, March 13, 2025

dalles dam. (2004)



A regular poem, built of mythos

Was slapping against the shore of the evening

As the damned engine's third eye cyclops

Punctured the fog

Off the belly of the Columbia river


Migratory birds unlike stuffed turkeys

Filling the aisles of listeria,

To outfly the fork is key strategy 

Here in nature world

Clouds do as


They will, we can piss them off

With planes and radars but they'll

Drift into morphed omens

Beyond all censor's snip-n-tuck discretion,

River and rock, now there's

A relationship built to wilt.


Put condos on the marshes

Call it reclamation victory

4 us ape clan!

The duty of a cementblock is to measure up

A soldier must crumble his pity

A duty of a doily is to administer grace


So regular poems go,

Decorum duncifies our landscape




2004

The dalles, oregon

No comments: