the trees seem very far away from here
& there's a roar that's not the sound
     of creekwater tumbling through the sky
straight lines cross the sky & ground
forest eaten by houses through whose windows
     I can see the ones who have paid for their view
I can see them, even a mile away
they are eating my home, the mountain forest
they don't even know I live there
my feet are on concrete but my eyes
     always look up at cloudwoman's hair
trailing through the last dark trees
far far away

one day I'll walk into a speeding car on Mountain Highway
gazing with love at cloudwoman's hair
the roar is all the same


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