September 1915 Bridge

Elephant and Pony 

coyote snow tracks
swinging bridge
flock of small birds calling
bare trees merced bank
falls, and black crow calling
two pines resting
bobcat from the bus
yosemite creek bridge
kids' book of animals
in yosemite
grey squirrel running up side of the cedar
3 deer crossing snow
in the cabin's cedar grove
blue jay on the pine boughs
rain and slush
blue jay by the kitchen corner
rain and snow
golden squirrel with eyes rimmed with white
d(?) sees the white headed
woodpecker on the red cedar
bark looking for bugs
beneath the bark
elephant trunk wrapped around me
many colored pony galloping to me

DolphinWords
Yosemite 2004

 First three pen and inks are of Tuolumne, and fourth is the Bridge upstream from Emerald Pool...and the poem, if that's what is is!, and not just some jotted notes, is of the listing sort I often do, but the ending kinda floors me, and I cant recall at all what I was about with the elephant and the pony...maybe they were illustrations in the kids' book...I dunno...poems are like little campfires...one gathers some kindling, like the listed sights and sounds above, figuratively lights a match with some form or another, and hope it all catches fire...Graves notes in a discussion on the origin of the word poet as related to 'make' and 'maker', that a good poem will go out into the world and survive, and, in my metaphor, keep burning, all on its own..."Tyger Tyger" probably a good example of one such!...cloudy early scattered clouds later....the funds have their monthly replenishment, and I took the Toshiba Lap Top to Best Buy for repair, expecting the worse, but service folk fiddled with it, blew some canned air here and there, and it's working now, 'can I pay?'...''s okay, have a good day'...and a handshake...browsed about the new computers and things...lot of empty spots, and empty pegs...not a good business sign...then went over to Harbor Freight to look at the bargain woodworking bench...read reviews on web, most of them glowing...but in the floor model, I stuck my finger in the dowel dog holes to see if the top is solid oak butcher block, like reported...no...oak veneer over pressboard...pressboard is everywhere in furniture...visited Home Depot too to get wood for small bookcase, but in conservative financial mood!, and came away empty handed...doing post with the mac book out on the porch using wifi, toshiba is loading some giant patch down load from wow, and taking its time! :)...well, it is a poem....I had to put in the line breaks to post after moving from html edit to compose edit, and the breaks have to be where they are!...one of my interlaced poems...the end of each line enjambs into the beginning of the next...