Klamath Poems - Poems about Klamath

...One day I'll drive there. On the way I'll tell my wife about the Modoc woman, who lived outside the city, above a sea lion rookery. She taught me a Klamath-Modoc prayer: “I want you animals......

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...Crater Lake, Oregon a lake sacred to the indigenous Klamath tribe she appeared after collapse of Mt. Mazama doorway portal to the underworld Crater Lake where spirit Llao fell in love with a N......

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...One day I'll drive there. On the way I'll tell my wife about the Modoc woman, who lived outside the city above a sea lion rookery. She taught me a Klamath-Modoc prayer: “I want you animals ......

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...When I get to the Redwoods, I’ll look for her clapboard home above a sea-lion rookery. I will seek out her twelve-year-old Ford truck, her briny patch of hand-reared garden, her small surf-ridi......

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...April 6 Wagontire, Oregon 1973 In 1973, I went on a road trip With my father We left Berkeley to go to Yakima Where my father had a summer cabin He was a college professor And had July......

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...senators seeing stapled starkers Loopholes. Lanky long. Llama Klamath llama please do not lean on those bent gables. For gables are gargling and gargling sounds very eerily similar to a gaggle of ge......

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... unfettered on its way to the sea bathing the land with all its riches from its source to the ocean where it spends itself flowing wild and free from the beginning of time the fis......

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...Sitting by the Klamath River in Northern California, watching as it endlessly makes its way around the bend, searching for the sea. A "wild river' it is, one of the few left untouched by dams and the......

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...Spray painted on the bridge guardrail The words "Two Feathers is pok li la..." Past and the present meet by the river The old ways remembered by the young. Two Feathers in an "upstream man" Tribes o......

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...Drops on the river Silver ripples spread- Rust colors the bank Remembering getting caught in a fall shower while fishing on the Klamath River.......

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...Mist rises from the mountains and meets rain clouds spilling down the canyon. Fish ducks fly up river, their breasts just skimming the water. The heron stands in the shallows, his neck arche......

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...Drifting by variegated green banks, Moving water in all shades of blue. A trout flashing his silver sides, The setting sun in a golden hue. The brown of restless rocky bottom, Shadowed eddies......

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