Where the blood red huckleberry grows
Catspaw flounders in the
Forest of the dwarf
Ogre roams and bellows
Down the green tunic
Of the Manzanita
Salal and the
Hundred year old spruce.
Where rivers one inch wide
Disturb the pattern.
Man grub
Grit and drub dung.
Where blasts outrage
The solitary beetle
And spoil the unheard
Moment with
Molten iron balm.
Where the unhappy axe
Rides communion with
The wildwood of the night
And the spade flickers silver
Through the virgin dust,
Digs and splashes fine
Powder.
I greet this land
Of the whale and wolf
Ten rocks deep
With the spit
Of dead giants
And breathe
The bubbled fog
While burgeoning
Inside the dark womb
Of the last pigmy
Birth miracles
Spawn and splatter
What unknown children
Into this land.