Wednesday, July 8, 2015

Gathland State park 950'

Five poems

1.
Rear guard
battle for south
mountain,

headed for shelter.

running water,
open field, Gathland
Estate...Alfred Townsend

[was a journalist during the civil war]

had the war on his front porch.

2.
Gabow posed with ceramic soldiers,
          they'd all marched through the
          Shenendoah in June,

but this was 150 years apart,
and for different
reasons.

3.
Library no longer standing.

          a barn made of stone,
the trail zig zag through property
          mist, coming rain
moisture on bag, sticks, trees, miles
          mind.

4.
filing water bottles,
     filing them up.
bitten by a mosquito,
     bite swelling up.

5.
In a flash
              Mercury
a memorial
message from the gods,
thunder,
newspapers,
           pencils
           typewriters
           ink
           go
in a flash

AT Poems VI

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