We left Little Redfish for Lake
Knowing the trout would wait there
I hope someday we’ll have enough m
I caught the limit of trout within
My woman trailed silently behind,

Hinged to forgetfulness
like a door,
she slowly closed out of
sight,
and she was the woman I loved,

THE PUDDING MASTER OF
STANLEY BASIN
Tree, snow and rock beginnings, th
lake promised us eternity, but the
thousands of silly minnows, swimmi

It’€™s a star that looks
like a poker game above
the mountains of eastern
Oregon.
There are three men playing.

SEA, SEA RIDER
The man who owned the bookstore wa
three-legged crow on the dandelion
He was, of course, a Jew, a retir
who had been torpedoed in the Nort

I don’t know what it is,
but I distrust myself
when I start to like a girl
a lot.

Forget love
I want to die
in your yellow hair

A girl in a green mini–
skirt, not very pretty, walks
down the street.

O beautiful
was the werewolf
in his evil forest.
We took him
to the carnival

Sometimes life is merely a matter
affords. I once read something abo
it stimulates all the organs.
I thought at first this was a stra
as time goes by I have found out t