Overhead

Overhead
green shadows follow
the late afternoon

To my eyes
a field between
two firs

I listen to grasshoppers
Their thighs make clear sounds
in the stillness

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Biography

Berkeley street poet of the 60s, self-exiled to Alaska outback, printer of chapbooks, cowpoke, treeplanter on the slopes of Mt. St. Helens after the blast, longtime bookseller, Richard Denner is living with his elderly mother in North Bay suburbia, gaining a little weight, getting a little grayer, and still reading his poems in coffeehouses. Visit his website http://www.dpress.net