marlene mountain
other-line haiku sequences
1971
as is
moving
moving
into the mountains:
spring
again
old mountain home--
tattered wallpaper
tobacco
stains
peeling back
the cardboard insulation
recipes from '37
inside:
smells of paint and turpentine
outside:
the pines
somehow
at creek's edge
a
rusty stove
hoeing weeds
all day
all
night the motion
puffing up the hill
unable to stop
going
down
between the smokehouse
and chicken house:
a
natural garden
stretching
for the trees, finding a hill
in
each
all way up the hill
grabbing
at things--
going down--the same
in the 'holler'
a
few hours
of sun