one our second-last sorghum cook day
one image from the morning mill shift and the rest from the sugar shack afternoon
stationed as the fire-feeder at the steam boiler
such a tiny oval door
to let out such a huge heat
stacking two logs in from the left and two logs in from the right
alternating
forest transformed into energy
light transformed into light
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two miles in moonlight
first we follow a tire-track-trampled path south
then white gravel east
we are all mostly silhouette
but i can still tell
we look like a band photo
(backlit by the last light
a strand of smoke-orange on the horizon)
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a name
for when two trains pass each other
on opposite tracks
going in opposite directions
how this feels like some sort of good omen
under a clear star sky
remnants of the meteor shower
streaking
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joe tells us which stars to follow
from the big dipper to find the little dipper
and north star
i use my arm to create a line
and draw it across sky
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sound of combines machining into the night
layered over with the singing of rails below
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ears turned and eyes scanning
car! i call at the approach of light
as we scramble to bridge edges
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the smell of palo santo smoke wafting from the trainbridge
a summoning of the california coast in a pluot
and you, sledge, as we pass it from hand to hand
under a lowering and slightly-fuller-than-a-sickle moon
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world, in water:
In Shanghai, city officials closed more than 60 parks and the city zoo as residents waded through flood waters after heavy rains hit the financial area in the aftermath of Typhoon Fitow. – bbc news, day in photos
People are seen on a rubber boat along a flooded road at Amata Nakorn industrial Estate in Chonburi province, east of Bangkok, Thailand. Flooding at an industrial estate east of the capital has forced the closure of 2 foreign-owned factories producing electronic spare parts. – voice of america, day in photos
A Bangladeshi firefighter douses a fire that killed almost a dozen people at a garment factory in Gazipur outside Dhaka, Bangladesh. – voice of america, day in photos
Residents make their way through a floodwaters after typhoon Fitow swept the area in Yuyao, east China’s Zhejiang province.- voice of america, day in photos
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