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Port Carbon
6-5-18

Hard going watching the sky receding through growing drifts
Stumbling past the hideous frame duplex
Down off Sharp Mountain
For the spice of wasabi in soy
O, Caslin face stung in astonishment at the pluck-me store
Fooling like displaying the designing of myself
To make a change and invest in printing paper
Standing five feet six with room to grow
For this journey as to misrepresent ourselves
Still pale easterners in drab
And memories of Irish and Welsh....






Mack, Sow!
6-5-18

With a lantern to carry us home
May as well been astounded
Pa, he cries back, sow!
As to run the circle
Never enough firewood as to shake the static
In resistance to make one stronger
So that your tarantula might live longer
Mining Schulkill coal setting a measurable goal
In reams as if at the end of ones commenting
Here she comes as snow descending
Killed by the sunless world of boyhood
Skilled in the gathering of firewood
It's never enough seeing California
Now in plaid frock coat....






Depot Revisited
6-5-18

Passing through Fresno
Thinking about getting out to see what the country brings
South into Bakersfield
You have no idea what there is to get through
Till you arrive and I will survive
Not for its cheapness where excursion fares
To never be left alone
Standing up for the underdog as to bring it to pass
Incorruption in our Emigrat's guide of shadows
Of modern machine as touching on a favorite line
We say that they all look the same due to misunderstanding.....






Athens Of The West
6-5-18

Reflections approach and recede again
As to strengthen and encourage
Even unto the end of days
I do you no wrong so saith the enemy
Saying when I'm all His press like that
Just a tantalizing snatch of it
In clouds and worlds we can't control
And cravat of peacock come and see the orange groves
Of jowly farmers of straw
All for rivers as Pyrites and cool summer nights
Of our birthrights calling it Athens of the west
Up in the Sierras for the shadow of modern machinery
They are not quite what they seem as to attend to the calling...