Thursday, November 10, 2005

Long Drive Home at Midnight after Taking an Old Friend to the Klamath Falls Train Station

cautious progress
south on socked-in potato basin
oncoming beams five-pointed
celestial in freezing fog

swelled yellow halfmoon
steady descending
in irregular shreds of wasted
storm soaring north

slipping under tule veils
low flat gauntlet of will-o'-the-wisp
brushing over
one
by one

climbing finally
plateau's yardstick road
bursting dry from mist
onto barrens volcanic
and ink-drenched juniper
halfmoon waiting there
all cold clarity and startling
firmament

crazed and infinite


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