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At the End of an Epoch
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The ice melts


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Summoned from ancient days


a shaggy tarantula


patrols the earth and takes a stand.


And a spider white as


edelweiss hides at my window


that overlooks water.


 


Wearing long fur coats the four leggeds come:


an electric fox with chestnut fur


has left his den


to share his warmth


for I'm frozen to the bone.


 


Animals arrive with hollow white hair:


 mountain goat, arctic hare and polar bear--


spirit me over a frozen landscape


farther than the human eye can see.


 


The wise eight-leggeds, the four-leggeds


comfort and teach me in a


land of sleet and snow.


 


Encouraged at last, I draw a circle


around the Pleistocene


and it retreats leaving a pleasant landscape


pot holed, folded, silted and graveled, filled with


kettle lakes, gushing streams


and five Great Lakes in its wake.


 


Trees spring up and great mastodons


graze in green meadows.


 


The Wilderness Within

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 Reviews of "At the End of an Epoch"
Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on February 7, 2006
I had to go put on a sweater...and I live in the Sonoran Desert!
Some wonderful imagery, Barbara. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your work.


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