READING(audio)

WILDERNESS ILLUSION

Gazing eastward,
Twin peaks
Rolling timber tops
Resemble
"Dolly"
Lying
Sideways
Thigh
Etched
In sky
blue
And gray
Remembering
Rumble
Of Blue
And Gray
Fighting
Dividing
Muskets
Solving
Nothing .

By Walt Barger
September 12, 2000




READING(audio)

"JACK'S" GIANT

The beauty of these hills
Call the callus to court
Judging earthy flight

Of elevated emotions;
The beauty of the storm
Angered somewhere past

Distant mountain
Marches through back
Of beyond like

"Jack's" Giant guarding treasures;
drum rolls spitting sparks
strikes light in darkness.

He parades past
Leaving wet and wind
And a clean fresh breath.

These hills smile as I
Compare their beauty
With "her's," reading on the couch.

By Walt Barger
September 12, 2000

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