Friday, October 2, 2009

Poem from a week on the Buffalo River in Arkansas, summer of 2008


Two kingfishers

Half a dozen brim

Two blue gill

Nineteen spiders

Two water snakes

10,000 sycamores

562 bluffs

Three thunderstorms

Six black-eyed susans

One tent wasp

40 x 11 no-see-ums

62 short rapids

Five camp fires

Nine hanging gardens of maiden hair ferns

One “Little Niagara”

Three tents

49 Great Blue Heron

Three canoes

6 x 12 stories

One beginning, in a glass of blueberry wine.

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