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lean dogs crisscrunching backyard paths

frozen puddles of December rain blueblack

night …

a satellite crosses the southwestern sky

standing on the snowbanked

tumble of riverroar

boulders grumble midstream

jetstream desolate unseen

american centigrade

too much colder than farenheit

the litter of frozen crows, bleak blueblack nights …

someone saying the ol’ mercury dipped

down to 9 degrees just before sun up

jumble of ghetto poor drugsters

gamble and preen maelstrom

havoc undreamed

nights black and blue

frozen puddles of December rain

lean dogs crisscrunching back alley trash

stiff winds down the jetty

whipping rain

rusting wrecks off disappointment

ilwaco wash

gray weathered trunks, masts

lapping dark pebbles

streaming crick cold in dense fog

through banks of white snow

otter tracks and deer droppings

damn, she says as

her pink slacks

droop down stumbling up the

drunken concrete steps

of dimaggio’s fisherman’s wharf

half-masted and damn, she says the

boozy old blond

oh damn

the pink slack salmon

lapping narrow ankles

bareassed

she stoops to retrieve

her pretty pink mudsullied pants

gathering in ilwaco wash

down the jetty of stiff winds

whipping rain

rusting the wrecks of disappointment