A Hundred Avenues

ScottFisherThanksgivingRiver_500.jpg


I came here nearly forty years ago,
broke and half broken, having chosen
the mud, the dirt road, alder pollen and
a hundred avenues of gray across the sky
to be my teachers and my muses.
I chose a temple made of words and made a vow.


Image above (and on front-page mastheads): "Thanksgiving River" by Scott Fisher.

Words above: from "of cascadia" by Sam Hamill. Read the complete "of cascadia" here.
Sam Hamill is the founding editor of Copper Canyon Press.

Posted by C. Robin Janning on December 1, 2012 6:40 PM | |
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"I chose a temple made of words." I love that.

Aly Severance (added by ~ed.)

Posted by Iruntohim.blogspot.com [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 4, 2012 2:07 PM

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