Small girls with gaudy flowers
flash down the bare walk road

her eyes and smile are elsewhere:
swelling out and sailing to the future

the curvd lines toe-drawn, round cornerd squares
bulge out doubles from its single pillar line, like,
Venus of the Stone Age.

First            Samish Bay
             then all morning, hunting oysters

August was foggy,
September dry.
October grew too hot.

Plunging donkey          puberty devi 
       flings her thighs, swinging long 
   legs backward on her mount 

you stood close to the boy, bored,
looking off into the vanishing point

we stand in profile perfectly still
against the bulletin board

WANOKA (AP) Chimney Rock, which stood for centuries on the Oklahoma plain as a towering guide for covered wagons crossing the treacherous Cimarron River, has fallen victim to the same forces which created it. “Moisture and wind, the tools that sculpted it, reduced the eerie formation to a heap of rubble,” said Ernie Crumpler, Oklahoma University geologist.

You kneel at the stream
to drink from your hands.