Best Tule Poems

Tule Fog 

The mist hangs in the canyons, 
like a whisper, like a prayer.
Like an ancient dark suggestion, 
of something not quite there.  

It’s a misty cauldron, 
or the steam of dragon’s lair.
A secret incantation, 
removing the despair. 

It’s the “just add this”in H2O,
and...

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I wait for the heat
of the Allis Chalmers crawler’s engine
to fill the tarped in space
where I sit huddled
next to levers, gauges and knobs.
The crawler seems to float.
The tule fog obscures the ground
covers everything,
all that has grown
and all that was lost.
Even the old, worn stone headstones
behind...

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The tree of Tule in Oaxaca, Mexico, is the tree with the largest trunk diameter in the world. Its circumference reaches almost 60 meters and has a height of 42 meters. Its approximate age is 2,000 years.

tens of people could 
take a nap at the...

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In Tule Valley, hooves strike the sagebrush-speckled desert floor, 
it is there between the rippling mountains that stocky legs push off
the ground, and take to a gallop; 
A momentum so palpable it resonates with each strike of the earth,  
in this valley where dusting...

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