Fall '06 TOC
Atoll closes and unites sand two bodies playing in moon’s pull San Dieguito scraper-maker
river valley flint shaper where aqua bleeds salt marsh a ferry crosses to homesteader’s General Store
of goods and No.1 cigars later witness to fill dirt and tractors churning grasshopper wings
to tees and greens, a fools’ expanse doom and drown to putter’s follow through.
Grand Avenue bridge crosses lagoon connecting riparian wonder two mooring circles, blimps on the screen
gravel road to nowhere estuary swallows airport slabs Least Turns and Light Footed Clapper Rails
resident and itinerant birds fly by wires, a throwback amidst plotting progression
Who’s mapping this continuous obliteration? white egret wings outstretch
in alluvial fan along fen final resting place
without head skeletal reticence speaks essential noblesse
everything foreign alters ecology non-native species
nature out of place West Nile virus Western Russian Zebra mussel
English Ivy Sea Fig “Freeway” plant land developers
nuclear plants intake damn populate it’s like war here.
Vanessa cardui wanderer here transmigrator
painted lady full of grace floating flying
forty miles of fourteen foot fencing steel landscape freeways architects of free world
Mariposa’s parade immigrant explorers migrant workers
all dreamers follow ghostly paths eat thistles, mallows, nettles fragrant pheromones on the move
lay eggs on shrubs on slender sleeves of city trees in sweeping shows of grace
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