The Pine, The Alpine

THE PINE, THE ALPINE



To be empty
In Alpine deserts

On bare shape
With exposed flesh

To purge.

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To be scoured
Free, naked as

A glacier lake
Clear as a dew sky

Re-pristine.

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Ready as windblades
To full as a sail

In the sky's sealake
above screening treelines

And eschew the easy shade
of miserable peace.


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- May 20 1995, Mount Kosciusko, Australia