Tension’s electric As it calmly builds. Building static. Running. Not looking back. This is over Coasts and Heartlands, Over mountains And fields Of grand design. It surges: Flash and thunder Alters flesh And bone into Light itself. Bands of tendons. Now gunsmoke As they action And fire. Time’s come To run, Unsure, Wayward. Peaceful woodsContinue reading “Surge of Triumph”
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Solar Flytrap
Withering noise As you enter a void Full of concrete Floating on black streets As you pass through a portal Through a shield You emerge in a meadow Dead, yet an oasis of brick Water flows in a single river To cut around features built Into the dry ground And lonely town It sits inContinue reading “Solar Flytrap”
Cavities
Cascades shield A delicate vegas From the cold Now a stone jaw With jagged teeth Protects a tongue Of heat And dead grass While it Swallows the sea In low clouds
Idle Nowhere
Piloting all day Through passes And mountains Dense woods And hills Giving way To a plains Where the grass Is dead Unless it follows Flowing water Couldn’t stop At the edge We had to tilt Into the valley Where valley people Have so little To do but build Their own cities Harvest their amnenities
Cutis Anserina
Existential starlight As the night Bows in twilight Soot of a black air Is slowly swept away Through the Snoqualmie Pass Over Teneriffe’s teeth And North Bend valley peaks Embers of Sol Burn Ellensberg’s soul As the visible spectrum Scorches the grass Into Yakima Valley This twisting path And the sun rises Wiping the coldContinue reading “Cutis Anserina”
Kittias Valley
Ellensberg, West, from the Water Tower
Millennial Backpackers
Central
Central Out on plains A wasteland Of painted dirt Of dirt roads Of pathways of dust And mountainous Track through the Teeth of cascadia A blackgull’s call Echoes from the top Of the hill’s peak When you peek over The edge To see A new landscape A different horizon Of paint Of dust Of aContinue reading “Central”