you follow train tracks come to a sheep pasture
RR
tracks
sheep
pasture
house
trailer
ceme
tery
inter
section
grazing
sheep
facing
evry
way
my
compass
sheep
---------pasture
---------------------pattern
18 sheep & cloudless sky
sheep
& rain
also
kin
stand & watch
3 horses also
stand & watch
stream
boulder
sheep
color
somebody's roof at home in this stream
walnut leans
-------------over stream
------------------------listening
graveyard's
an
other
flock
above
sheep
pasture
graveyard
---------obelisk fell
---------------------perfectly west
year's first monarch suns on a headstone
monarch
-----------on headstone
-------------------------- about to
------------------------------------ topple
headstones leaning
-------------------one against another
--------------------------------------against a cedar
all winter
-------------nest stayed
---------------------------one piece
winter left
-------------a clean cup
-------------------------nest
sheet-plastic-
------------------storm-window too
-----------------------------------------in nest
you set
a stone urn
upright
somebody walking toward you just vanished
~
All the above, just in, is from compass by John Martone and scarce in any edition. This is but one section from the new book. Many of John's finest books, booklets, sleeves, sheets, broadsides etc., are from jaunts, hikes, walks, on-foot strategy of eye and hand coordination from the neighborhood garden, midwest woods, fields and streams.
