blueberry ships

serendipitous scribblins

emerging from all directions at once,

black cats and buckskin ponies purr alike

this scene has been staged,

this curtain rises here and now

in these woods it is said:

paths do proceed straight ahead

when obliged to remain uninterrupted

then what to make of these towering red Muir wood trees

so dried up

so carelessly shot at

with silver fire?

lessons must live buried deep in the wood

whether tossed airborne for a sprinting blond retriever

or

out here in this free sailing Bay ,

blueberry ships dancing and embracing,

carrying this generation

somewhere round the world

never back again

Williams, Oregon

8/20/73