Pendelton's Jacquared Blankets

 

Injin Casino

White Man's Reservation

Dirt Road Harvest

Jaqua Academic Center, on the U of O Campus

When you contemplate the forests
At dawn you can smell
The Ferns Blossom

Ground fog obscures a woodland view, and spray paints spider webs full of misty glistening dew.
Meanwhile Old Growth Roots lick up a forest soup of murkiness.
This morning a forest will take in its glistening foggy due.
Till sunbeams arrive and hose down morning moisture till its dry n true.

I sit alone
Millions of thoughts pursue me
On a mountain pass
Burnt mud caked to my boots
flicked off with a burnt stick

A untitled Tanka:
Natures Candles glimmer
Autumn's lightning blooming
Petal plumage droops n flickers
Leaves wither in white dew
Foliage raindrops in free fall

Thinking of Korea (November 28th 2010)

Northern winds thrown

Southern Boughs splinter
 

Seoul's soul dies or grows

 

Yellow Blue and Green

Yellow Blue & Green

Leaves -  Notes  -  sketched in colour

Miles Coronet
   
Climbing a Mountain Pass

Autumn makes me Kind of Blue

High Plains Sunset

Longhaul Truckers settle in

Fore black ice slips in

Like firewood

In a bonfire

Life burns

After 10 days of none stop rain and or snow out on the PCT this June, I wrote in my soggy Moleskin; while on a break I sat on a log and kept my pack on.

Frost snaps a bending bough,
Lost loves angst in my chest,
...A downpour of hail stings my bald head,
Steaming cold waters drip down my cheeks & forehead

See you later

The hearse bumper sticker

Read

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Cherry petals draw
A visual eulogy
Falling past their prime

Foliage falling
Views narrow, colours deepen
Then fade and crumble

Some are like Green Plums

Some leaves of course are coloured

Burnt Sky Foliage

Did the Pope sanction
Priests inserting unforgivable sin

into the Virgin Masculinity
of acolytes, choir boys, and those who gave in ?

Samusa winds blow

deflowered c l o u d s

Onto westerly shores

Butterflies flutter
Falling from summer's Cocoon
Grilled up much too soon

A dark orifice
A brick facade entices
The unknown within

Treetops shadow forth

In the glimmering twilight

Hovering above

Insidious growth

Infestacious beauty

Gentrify Kudzu

Wabi Sabi

Piled high in the shade

Crapped out on a brick facade

Feral Pigeon Poop

High crime area of Chicago

Avoca, Iowa

The Hennepin Canal

 

My Mom and Dad have died

Life and death the way of time

Everything has changed

Paducah, Kentucy

Treetops shadow forth

Into twilights reflections

Hovering above

Florence, S. C.

North of Santa Fe N. M.

Florence, Oregon

Kingman, Arizona

A rare high n dry view of Elk Mountain, Wyoming

The Road less traveled, New Mexico

 

Know it well I do

The Road less traveled

In Solitude

Know it well I do The road less traveled In solitude

The Red Shed (The Red Can)

The Red Shed (The Red Can)

Snowflakes melt like
powdered sugar
on ones tongue

A drop of dew wells
Heavy at a leafs tip
Petals wilt then fall
(paraphrased from Kiba's Death Poem)

Trekking - Parched - I watch, Raindrops drooling off a mountain pass, Though I've drank my last drop

Forest Footsteps

Fog sketches ephemeral outlines of an old growth stand
Douglas Firs nurture and awe my mind's eyes
The river n' trails (pct) lessen my guardedness
So as to welcome my experience of the Northwest Forests embrace
My footsteps
My breathsteps
My visualsteps
I join in lockstep with the forest's prosody
It's thematic forest breath
It's thematic forest footsteps

Fires squelched by snowfall
Yet Ambers still glow
Up mountain paths westerly winds blow
HO!

Bone chilling cold warmed by the fire
The time has past to climb down the pass
I lie in my tent as the wet
The cold
The chill
The rain & clouds creep in
The moonlight brings Kokyo
The sunrise Jakkodo

Tree trunks shed layers of white ash
In my campfire
Weary winds whimper down a mountain pass
Coughing out cloud puffs - that wisp        bye!
Wearily I trudge up through mountain rain clouds

McKenzie River Trail #19

McKenzie River Trail #18

McKenzie River Trail #16

McKenzie River Trail #17

McKenzie River Trail #14