Up the Mtn revisited

             Since some of you online have asked me about my book Up the Mtn, I thought I would revisit it's pages here on my blog over the summer. Summer for us here in Alaska has begun. The Grizzly our out again. Bear scat alongside their unmistakably massive clawed paw tracks, are all over the place up here in the Interior of Alaska. I live here in the sub arctic, just south of the Arctic Circle

    Hhere is page one, I hope folks enjoy it.

             This first poem Up the Mtn #256 speaks of the leaves of a tree & or human love. So lovely leaves, our love for leaves, alongside human love are all falling and or ceasing to be as they once were. All of which speaks to the evolution of the seasons, of time, of the maturation of human to human love and our love for leaves. Whether human love grows or ebbs it still matures over time over seasons. Seasonal maturation inevitably ends in a death of some sort. This seasonal death is then followed by rebirth, if not in humans then in leafs. So it is for trees, woman, or nature. 

            The last line, Autumned love, speaks to this theme. Autumned love insinuates death, change, and or maturation. It speaks to change, death, and the inevitable rebirth of life or love come spring. 

            Poem #153 continues #256's theme of foliage.It speaks of death falling and rebirth boughs bud or renewal. It speaks of an endless cycle of death & life, of rebirth, on and on. . . And on. It simultaneously speaks to the nature of nature and the nature of woman. Whether your rooted in dharmic or abrahamic religions or otherwise, it is applicable to all on some level.

          The last poem on this page Up the Mtn #141 deviates a bit from the previous two. It speaks to the aftermath of death, of a tree shedding if you will a pine needle. It speaks to the melding of nature and humanity. It speaks to how nature can insert itself into our daily man made existence upon the tatami. Once this insertion of nature occurs it can pause us. This pause causes us to reflect upon the simplistic beauty nature creates anywhere and everywhere. Here nature acts as an emotional catalyst initiating an aha moment, an emotional reaction to the seemingly mundane in our environment.