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Opening the Cabin

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      Future Readings:          

         Milwaukie Poetry Series
         Featured Reader: Mark Thalman
         Wednesday, May 8, 2013, 7:00 p.m.
         Ledding Library - Pond House
         2215 SE Harrison Street
         Milwaukie, OR 97222 

 




Moving into Night


After dinner dishes have been washed and put away,
I walk down to the dock.

Clouds hover against snow-capped peaks.
The sun, already below the horizon, turns glaciers pink.

Shadows stretch across the hills
like blankets being drawn up for the night.

Along the distant shore,
one last fisherman trolls for kokanee . . .

Below my feet, trout meander between pilings--
glide over dappled stones.

The moon rises.  On the water,
it is shattered by each wave.

With cupped hands, I scoop up a brilliant shard
and wash my face with wet light.

Soon, the wind dies, and the moon is again whole.
Pale stars, floating lanterns, dot the lake.

I untie my boat, shove off,
and lifting the oars, row across the heavens. 
                 
                               
 
Published in Poetpourri    
Republished in Catching the Limit (2009)

 

 

           Mark Thalman's is the author of Catching
           the Limit 
published by Fairweather Books
           (2009),  which is part of their Northwest 
           Poetry Series.  Thalman's poetry has been 
           widely published for almost four decades.  
           His poems have appeared in
Carolina 
           Quarterly
, CutBank, 
Many Mountains 
           Moving
, 
Pedestal Magazine, and
Verse 
           Daily
, among others.  He received his 
           Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Writing 
           from the University of Oregon, and he 
           teaches English in the public schools.  
           Thalman is the editor of
poetry.us.com.  
           He lives in Forest Grove, Oregon.  
  

 


 
 
 

 
                     Catching the Limit
   
                     $15 + $3.50 postage and handling for customers in U.S.A. and Canada.

                           Paperback: 88 pages 
                           Audience: Young Adults and Adults
                           Catching the Limit © 2009 Mark Thalman. 
                           All rights reserved.  
                           ISBN 978-0-9822982-0-6
                           Library of Congress
                           Control Number 2009921309

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