Sunday, April 26, 2009

A WALK WITH JOHN MARTONE







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.