Post Card to William T. Vollmann


POST CARD TO WILLIAM T. VOLLMANN

"this is all we will ever have to love"
            Robert Sund

We've had you with us
on the beach at Shi Shi
with Robert, reading poems
calling out your name

with those who sing the song
of nothing-held back. You're around
the fire, plenty of room, you
don't have to write another word.

Borderlands is shack work, too.
Walking, hiking, looking around.
Fully engaged, finding color
and texture in stones, working

the patina rubbing stones
in their patient witness.
This note of thanks, confirmation
of your presence in the circle.

Jim Bodeen
29 June 2019

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