bridges and bypasses

crawl up and over and through this city
across the muddy bottomed river
and so much rust and pulp
heading for the columbia
and the pacific
arches and trusses,
drawbridges and spans of concrete
somehow graceful in their engineered form
spanning voids, carrying cars over
industrial riverbanks and salvaged green
spaces wearing engineered names like
esplenade and storm-water retention roofs
i sit in a north facing,
climate controlled
palace
waiting [...]

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A World of Sky and Cloud

i am a twisted fish
a fish longing for a world
beyond all these stones,
weeds and bubbles
a fish longing for
the sharp pierce
of something new
a glimpse at a world
beyond fins and gills
to a world of sky and cloud
and you
a heron
walking on water
legs like reed grass
or tiny pilings
drove your skilled beak
into my life, giving
me all I longed for
when i [...]

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In the Nurturing Damp

and what of that shack
now that summer has come
and gone and with it
the rawkus stellar jay
i evicted the first of two
times i swung open
the crooked door
in search of forgotten
things
with what will it
be filled by the people
i have allowed inside
during my impending
absence?
what things will nest
in the nurturing
damp while i seek
out a new home
for [...]

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Dream Ski

Couloir, cube of ice and rock whittled
away in all the right places
immaculately rising
from converging sea storm at
south end of Douglas Island dream
skiing off blind cliffs and landing
sometimes deep
in drifts so soft
only dream clouds could drop
making deep tracks
along this coast not unlike
this known place but rather
a mysterious Patagonian coast
a drift with explosive breakers
and icebergs
with an old [...]

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