Tuesday, December 28, 2010

Cribbed Logs


A defining fire:
Carbon remains;
A curriculum derived
From a test of lives,
Escape velocities,
And tusks dropping
To the ground.
After which
An absent sound,
Silence of
Startled birds,
Replaces words.

5 comments:

  1. When i taught and lived in Elk Grove many years ago when Geo. was one of my students, I had cords of wood like this that gradually diminished each year like the see here. The words and image bring all of that back to me. Thanks!

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  2. Hey Geo, What kind of woood is that in the picture? Bay, Buckeye?

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  3. It's Eucalyptis, Annie B. The strange heart-wood pattern came from how it grew off a stump for thirty years --really just a forty-foot-tall sucker. I'll have to cut it again when I'm 91.

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  4. It looks beautiful. I hope you don't mind if I plug you on fb too...

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