AFTER TEARING OUT THE BLACKBERRIES ON THE MCKENZIE RIVER

 

V. AFTER TEARING OUT THE BLACKBERRIES

ON THE MCKENZIE RIVER, THE WOMAN

APPROACHES HIM SITTING ON THE ROCK

EATING HIS SANDWICH

        --for Sarah Hunter

Tell me about Barry Lopez, she says.

He said, Two things I can’t teach.

I can’t teach you hunger. I can’t teach you discipline.

She said, After we’re finished here,

Would you like to go over to his house.

30 October 2023