And the Elk Die Gracefully
[a poem]

These mountains, the Sangres,
black and jagged against a fading summer sky,
the remnants of a page ripped from God’s novel.
We sit in its wake
wondering of which of these unknowable secrets
we’ve been robbed.
These mountains, the Sangres,
black and jagged against a fading summer sky,
the remnants of a page ripped from God’s novel.
We sit in its wake
wondering of which of these unknowable secrets
we’ve been robbed.
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American novelist, poet and father, blogging about love, sex and relationships.
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