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Susan McCampbell Ring - Cove/Mallard

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Cove/Mallard

Yesterday these forests were crimson pink
through the smoke of summer fires
(as if the very air were bleeding here);
today i stand soaking wet
looking thru rain-smeared glasses
sweaty from dancing with thunder;

Drumming tumbles with guitar, banjo & oboe
between Grand fir, bear grass
& sweet purpling huckleberries.
The tapping of the rain
comforts me. Reminds me of earlier,
down the hill where they're cutting

when i wrapped my arms halfway 'round
a doomed grandmother pine at dawn
--and, crying, i prayed for her deliverance.

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Susan McCampbell Ring
June-July 1998 Earth First!