HEAT! HEAT!

COPPER BASIN

Weathered logs, snow fields,

great water for propagation

of mosquitoes, and fog! Still

able to this, after hiking

through burnt forest,

Wolverine Fire, 

in its surroundingness,

knowing, too, how fires

move fast, uphill,

preheating fuel,

accelerating.

These trees.

Jim Bodeen

16 July 2018

AND AFTER THAT.

what joyness noodles its way in, like song-souled, no, no, no, song-sold, oh no, no, that won't work, won't do, won't become, never, never, never, now--now, now, no. Stop. On the first one, where you'd be proud if your dog behaved, crossing that lined-up in the cross-hatched place of wonder-color, it can't be done, raw like that. Jim Bodeen