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  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • WORKS
    • LICHEN SONGS
    • BEAVER'S FIRE
    • KEEPING THE SWARM
    • FRED HILL—A PHOTOGRAPHER'S LIFE
    • SOLDIER TO ADVOCATE
    • DARKROOM SOLDIER
    • POETRY IN MOTION
    • WEST OF PARADISE
    • ZOO POEMS
    • OREGON LITERATURE SERIES
    • CHINESE COUPLETS
    • MARKING THE MAGIC CIRCLE
    • OFF THE MAIN ROAD
    • SUNDAY AFTERNOON
  • REVIEWS
    • Lichen Songs REVIEWS
    • Beaver's Fire REVIEWS
    • Keeping the Swarm REVIEWS
    • Soldier to Advocate REVIEWS
    • Darkroom Soldier REVIEWS
    • West of Paradise REVIEWS
    • Marking the Magic Circle REVIEWS
    • Off the Main Road REVIEWS
    • Sunday Afternoon REVIEWS
  • EXCERPTS
    • West of Paradise EXCERPTS
    • Marking the Magic Circle EXCERPTS
    • Off the Main Road EXCERPTS
    • Sunday Afternoon EXCERPTS
  • INTERVIEWS
    • 1971
    • 1978
    • 1994
    • 1996
    • 1997
    • 2000
    • 2006
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POETRY IN MOTION

Picture
“Eagle Cap.” from West of Paradise. La Grande: Ice River Press/Wordcraft of Oregon, 1999.
Rpt. in POETRY IN MOTION, Poetry Society of America/NEA, 2001.
Calligraphed on 12" x 28" color sheet and displayed on all Portland, Oregon, buses and trains for 2002.
Donated by George Venn to Eastern Oregon University, November 9, 2005. NFS

EAGLE CAP

The mountain in Mirror Lake does not waver
in the wind. This means Wallowa calm has come.

Even tons of stone have settled down for a few
million years of sleep. From mistletoe and fir,

shade lulls your eyes. From deep water, your
new face rises slow. Some old grief sinks away.
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