poem

Here is a recent poem that may interest some of you
best
sam

          Ecological musings by an AIDS researcher, 2/11/04 

>From the overlook, Tasmania stretched vast
with flame-spurts scattered
where gum trees enacted
annual rites of aromatic self-immolation
unhelped by human hands.
Any humans were wee small,
too tiny to be seen.

Hunter traipsed weeks in his youth
in beloved Arizona gorges
chatting with bears, mountain lions,
coyotes
who rarely had seen
the spoor of human feet.

In January, I spend Martin’sDay weekend
doing poems at Cape May.
The waves don’t notice me,
don’t hear my poems though
I shout them to their spume.
They send their everyday
roaring rhythms to themselves
while timeless birds pick over
their repetitive left debris.

I remember my first interviews
with men with AIDS,
their timeless sturdy bodies shrunken
by the gnawing depredations of viruses
too tiny to be seen.



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