THE INDIAN'S LAMENT

Oh! How great be his sorrow with lakes and rivers poisoned by man, with mountains and plains denuded of trees...

FOR JESSIE

Chilling, wailful, screaming railroad distress call---

THE GESTURE

I was awakened perhaps by animal sounds outside our cabin...the moon slipped behind a cloud. She awoke in the dark...

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

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CHRISTMAS NEAR

Through a night dark utterly, intensely black that light will shine.