Poem by Shane Clark
 
 

 
 
Nature Weighs Life

We awaken - stare into the moon dry arroyos as if for the question our dreams kept trying to ask.

The question had something to do with buttes rising and falling like waves on an island sea, the warm Paleocene of our recollection.

The cottonwood leaves go on quaking, nodding agreement with every assertion of the wind.

The question blends imperceptibly with its answer like life continuing, an ocean of fields being slowly drained of wheat…

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