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July 30*

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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September 1*

*Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island.

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July 10*

wild-strewn cobble of stones on the beach placed           exactly in the neatswept sand by wave and wind in perfect alignment           with                every adjoining rock                by color, by space, by size                every planet, every star                every thought, every hope                all future, … Continue reading

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June 8*

intentionless pulse of wave time after time tongues the stones shiny wet *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in The View from Lummi Island. . . . . . stones

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October 23*

are these rocks my body? did i come out of this salty water? did i make this air, or did it make me? and why, o god, why explain this stunning beauty *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears … Continue reading

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December 4*

fallen and crashed leaves              hulls of worn-out machines              scraping, etching the rock in minute ways              freeing more hard molecules              to seep into soil              to fuel new leaves, more etch, new poems *Copyright 2010 by Luther Allen. This poem appears in … Continue reading

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July 23*

rock at tideline in perfect formed shape of itself striated and smooth and dark crystalline interstitial lattice shifted and tumbled by waves a billion times placed, ground amongst other rocks larger and smaller until each one fits it is here, … Continue reading

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