Inspired by the drawings of Rockwell Kent included in the autobiographical collection Wilderness: A journal of quiet adventure in Alaska
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“The Snow Queen”
dawn
when night and day
spoon eachother on
black sand beach
and across the bay
white mountains
stand indifferent
they know
only light
and shadow
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“Rain Torrents”
Ribbons
ever rushing
vertical path
from sea
to sky
or sky
to sea
even great mountains
become fluid
in such torrents
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“Kent’s cabin”
Kent’s cabin
drawn on
rare sunny day
ink caught on paper
shadows on log walls
Rockwell’s magpie
in box-trap cage
beside
low door
from this perspective
one cannot see
the great gaps
between logs
or hear
yeast jug
blow its cork
inside
in Kent’s wilderness
stumps equal sunshine
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archived Poems for Kent