The green of the grass and goldenrods / Is a luminous dark green / Darkening to almost black in the shadows

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I am watching the meadow darken

(Shirley is walking

Getting her walk in before the rain)

The blue / gray clouds are pressing down

On the landscape

The air is thickening

The green of the grass and goldenrods

Is a luminous dark green

Darkening to almost black in the shadows

And there is no breeze

No leaf stirring

Just waiting

I am trying to be OK with this

I think I am

I think I will just not fight it

And let it rain

Authors Website: https://garylindorff.wordpress.com

Authors Bio:

Gary Lindorff is a poet, writer, blogger and author of five nonfiction books, three collections of poetry, "Children to the Mountain", "The Last recurrent Dream" (Two Plum Press), "Conversations with Poetry (coauthored with Tom Cowan), and a memoir, "Finding Myself in Time: Facing the Music". Lindorff calls himself an activist poet, channeling his activism through poetic voice. He also writes with other voices in other poetic styles: ecstatic, experimental and performance and a new genre, sand-blasted poems where he randomly picks sentence fragments from books drawn from his library, lists them, divides them into stanzas and looks for patterns. Sand-blasted poems are meant to be performed aloud with musical accompaniment.


He is a practicing dream worker(with a strong, Jungian background) and a shamanic practitioner. His shamanic work is continually deepening his partnership with the land. This work can assume many forms, solo and communal, among them: prayer, vision questing, ritual sweating, and sharing stories by the fire. He is a born-pacifist and attempts to walk the path of non-violence believing that no war is necessary or inevitable.