Reading at the Orange Rotary Club – August 5, 2014

I enjoyed reading at the Rotary Club of Orange VA for my fellow Rotarians.

And thanks to those who purchased copies of my two books, including Linda Miller, (pictured).

This was the poem I finished with today, from Memories in Clay, Dreams of Wolves:

Wearing the Abyss

“When you look too long into an abyss,

the abyss looks into you.” – Nietzsche

I am become

hurricane,

whirling manifestation

of the abyss

I too long

look into.

I wear whorls

in my bloodstream.

I hear winds

in my earpulse.

I am made of water

and wild air.

In the end, I

dissipate across

the wide plains

in rain,

brief flashes,

and long echoes.