Sweet Water
(ode to Oregon)
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Woven in your
tangled wood
Spider spun
in your web
Your boughs
become my breath
tangled wood
Spider spun
in your web
Your boughs
become my breath
Birds trill
from the treetops
Soar over
the ridges
Friendly bear
in the shadows
Awaits his turn
at the blackberries
People are kind
A little wild
Rough-hewn
Like the bark
of a tree
But strip the bark
to find the sweet cambium
within
Oh Oregon
Your nectar
does burst forth!
And I fall to my knees
for your sweet water
Sweet water
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Written in the southern New Mexico desert
