We are strangers before thee,
and sojourners. --1. Chron. xxix. 15.
seven sons of habituals with
switches and axe in hand stand
next to the horse-drawn high
wheels that hold the huge log
they just got done loading which
soon will be moved to the nearest
railhead and eventually traded to
China or Hawaii or Australia as
lumber to build each nation's
dreams but when the shutter
clicks its duration of exposure
and this hot day smell and the
dancing insects and light coming
through the trees and that lens
all move forward into our digital
reckoning not one of them will
ever know that what was
dreamt is now killing us