Away Awhile

Berkeley: Lynx House Press, distributed by Small Press Distribution, ©1987
Descript 75 p. ; 23 cm
Subject: Mexico -- Poetry
ISBN 0899240518 (pbk.); 0899240526

Away Awhile was a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize in poetry.

Ninety Seconds in a Columbia
River Rest Stop

The day after the longest day of the year,
wind measures, equally,
the fool and foreigner,

the hundred miles of cheatgrass,
the windowful of African violets,
Our Lady of Elapsed Time be with me,

No one knew whose they were
when the first words about the water
at my feet were spoken