Sunday, October 12, 2008

The View


(written while several thousand feet in the air)

the ground is a confused checkerboard
all crooked lines 
and rows of trees

like winding scars
the rivers carve their paths;
puddled blood 
in an open wound

here and there
a hair's-breadth 
highway line
points onwards and away

clouds are torn
off clumps of feathery down
suspended planes
of snow
with grooves like
a traveler's shoe prints

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