Blogging from the mountains...

For those who don't know, I spend four days in the fall each year studying at Quartz Mountain. I attend the Oklahoma Fall Arts Institute and this year I chose to study poetry. It has been an incredible week end. I have been surrounded my incredible talent and breath taking art. The lodge is comfortable and rustic.

Here's a little sample of my work this week:

Survival

If the stars weren’t calling to me to come look,

If the coyotes would stop yipping their songs to the moon,

Damn moon -

I could crawl into the tangle of sheets and down and

Slide next to you.

I could slip away into nothingness.

Sometimes sleep isn’t necessary for survival.

I actually learned in the army ways to survive

In the most difficult times,

In the coldest environments,

The harshest terrains,

Without sustenance or sleep.