nature
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further downriver
further downriverbefore the old man mates with the bow and passes its genetics and its defectsas an inheritanceinto its south saskatchewan* offspringto either side in winterstubble on the faces of sleeping fields whose crops were last shaved in october protrude through thin sheets of snow or lie snuggled under heavy blanketslike an addict in a Continue reading
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downstream
downstreamwhere the river moveslike reptilian skin moveswhere the old man’s* python water muscles under the skin movewhere water basks on the gravel riverbed between rising away pastures that leanupslope to the hilltopswhere beyond the lick of flood feedlots squat the bladders and the bowels of a thousand notwo three ten twenty thousand morecattle are emptied Continue reading
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from a distant
from a distanthorizon of a clear day the mountain god’seye saw it all it sawa white insect of the subspeciesgeneral motors or ford or chrysler crawlwest on a distant ribbon of gravel like the road was a long gray grass blade a silver stemthe mountain god saw the insect stop where the road passedcat tails Continue reading
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like glaciers the mountain
like glaciers the mountainlike rain forests like jungles its body’simmune to every plague it carriesinside the closed bag of its own hideif it has lungs it holdsinside itself every virus it breathesinto its own bloodstream if it has veinsthe mountain doesn’t breathe outif it has blood it holdsinside itself every toxin it bleedsinto its own Continue reading
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