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Gary Lawless
Gary Lawless is co-owner of Gulf of
Maine Bookstore, in Brunswick, Maine, and is editor/publisher of
Blackberry Books. Over the last few years he has read poetry in
Italy, Slovenia, Latvia, Lithuania and Cuba. He currently edits the
embargo poets poetry blog.
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Chimney Farm
Stars, tonight there are
many stars and Mars,
Mars is the closest
in 60,000 years old
war god, above
the horizon and
east of the moon.
The loons are startled.
I wander the dark
farm, planet lit, old
red god, sacred to
the horse, the wolf, night
walkers and thieves, god
of the fields, the crickets
sing the songs of the dead you
rise red, turning
to gold.
when we speak
she slept on the floor of
our cabin, dreaming of dolphins.
we drove north.
I have been looking for the animals
willing to talk with me -
in Newfoundland, the caribou.
in Alaska the ducks.
Lithuania the storks.
Isle Royale, the moose -
What will come of our conversations?
Better to know wind and water,
walk the woods and
navigate the stars.
Poems © Gary Lawless 2004. All
rights reserved.
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