CUMBERLAND

remembered landscapes are left in me


higher now    the mountain rises
over the lake    where
drowned mornings linger

               *
monologues
of trains and cowbirds

if it could be restored

the path   wind riffling the sorghum field
music of merry-go-rounds
across steep darkness

               *
lizard hiss
in the dry
  sand-
        grass

dead conjunctions

we cannot

               *
silver in the mountain
up at the Rimrock
and yellow groundsel
under the alders

               *
if it could be
as it was
                 when
 


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