Hi Mark,
Thinking of you while reading 'stretched in the direction of the wind'.
best,
Jill
On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 12:16 PM, Mark Weiss wrote:
> The soil burned black. In places
> an overlay of ash where a tree had been,
> stretched in the direction of the wind,
> as if the wind
> had left its shadow in passing.
> In other places
> where there had been no wind
> and a slow burn
> a small circle, a dome
> the color of bones,
> perhaps an inch above the blackened soil,
> the footprint of the missing tree
> marked for the moment
> (until the next wind)
> by what the fire left.
>
>
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