American Idyll

yes, the river knows

Thursday, December 08, 2011

Among Stone Fishes

John Fahey: Poor Boys Long Way From Home
John Renbourn: The Hermit

Bert Jansch: Peregrinations

The immappable world
of our journey.
A pass in the mountains.
A bloodstained stone.
The marks of steel upon it.
Names carved in the corrosible
lime among stone fishes
and ancient shells.
Things dimmed and dimming.
The dry sea floor.
The tools of migrant hunters.
The dreams encased
upon the blades of them.
The peregrine bones of a prophet.
The silence.
The gradual extinction of rain.
The coming of night.
--Cormac McCarthy
Cities of the Plain
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enthusiast and inner gorge
shutterbug with Shinumo Amphitheater
nomads approaching Hance Rapid
Ms. Kate in Clear Creek Canyon

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