<html aria-label="message body"><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div class="x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-inline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 15px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px;">Piute Creek</div></div><div class="x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-inline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">One granite ridge</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A tree, would be enough</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Or even a rock, a small creek,</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A bark shred in a pool.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Hill beyond hill, folded and twisted </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Tough trees crammed</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In thin stone fractures</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A huge moon on it all, is too much. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">The mind wanders. A million</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Summers, night air still and the rocks </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Warm. Sky over endless mountains. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">All the junk that goes with being human </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Drops away, hard rock wavers</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Even the heavy present seems to fail </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">This bubble of a heart.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Words and books</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Like a small creek off a high ledge </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Gone in the dry air.</div></div><div class="x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-inline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 22px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">A clear, attentive mind</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Has no meaning but that</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Which sees is truly seen.</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">No one loves rock, yet we are here. </div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Night chills. A flick</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">In the moonlight</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Slips into Juniper shadow:</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Back there unseen</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Cold proud eyes</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Of Cougar or Coyote</div><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit;">Watch me rise and go.</div></div><div class="x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a" style="white-space: pre-wrap; margin-inline: 0px; overflow-wrap: break-word; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0.5em; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, ".SFNSText-Regular", sans-serif; caret-color: rgb(8, 8, 9); color: rgb(8, 8, 9); font-size: 15px;"><div dir="auto" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 22px;"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>- Gary Snyder</div></div></body></html>