BACKWATERS, WINTER LIGHT, ALMA, WISCONSIN
by Robert Schuler
swans floating
down the black
cracks of the channels
forever over
silver pools
under the long black bluffs
stained wine-red at sunset
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WINTERFALL
by Robert Schuler
walking stormwind
thudding bones
through the old prairie
threaded with deerpaths
hollowed into bowers
winding out towards the lake
strands of big bluestem mullein
Indian grass blasted down
whistling white-capped
waves rolling in wobbling with woodducks
bluebills and goldeneyes
Robert Schuler appears in two major anthologies of midwestern writing, Imagining Home and Inheriting the Land, both published by the University of Minnesota Press. His eleventh collection of poems, In Search of "Green Dolphin Street," was published by Marsh River Editions in 2004 and is available from the author, [email protected] or E4549 479th Avenue, Menomonie, WI 54751, for $9.00 including postage. A new collection of his work, dance into heaven, is forthcoming in February, 2005 from Juniper Press, P.O. Box 8037, St. Paul, MN 55108-0037.
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