Monthly Archives: April 2007

Bob Valentine 1946-2007

This is just a place:
we go around, distanced,
yearly in a star’s
atmosphere, turning
daily into and out of
direct light and
slanting through the
quadrant seasons: deep
space begins at our
heels, nearly rousing
us loose: we look up
or out so high, sight’s
silk almost draws us away:
this is just a place:
currents worry themselves
coiled and free in airs
and oceans: water picks
up mineral shadow and
plasm […]

OKC

Oklahoma City is tiny. Bricktown is sterile, but for the cowboy panhandlers.
And it’s all entirely too close to Texas.
But the baby is baby-cute and healthy.
…this is the third time in a row I’ve returned home to the relatively-big city. Next trip needs to be to civilization.