Yosemite
Yosemite, published in 1988, is a collection of short poems written on a trip to the park in December of 1987. It has nine sections, with 64 haiku, senryu, fragments, impressions, and other short poems, plus a concluding slightly longer poem:
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arriving (four poems)
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bridalveil falls (three poems)
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the valley (eight poems)
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the ahwahnee (five poems)
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curry village (three poems)
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wawona (fourteen poems)
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tuolumne grove (twelve poems)
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wawona (again) (fifteen poems)
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the valley (last look) (one slightly longer poem)
Here are some sample poems from Yosemite:
driving north
pressing my finger
to the glass
pancake clouds
flipping by
the stars stay the same
still stream
reflecting—
I rape it with a stone
. . . repent
still falls the rain
winter moonlight
sheds her shadow
in the trees
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