Dan Hedges

27.

{when you’re standing here in the river,

fly-fishing for aesthetic reasons,

the light on the water is everything

you want to be or can’t be

as you seem to

forward-face all time-space

with at least

a discernible skill}

28.

{the

elders

voices

are

so obviously

drenched

in the saline

of life

that

you

sense that

lichens

have

taken root in the

fertile acumen of their

aesthetic score}

35.

{Ferlinghetti

grows tomatoes

in the previous

world

with

semantic involvedness

and reverential ache}