Smith reporting via Lady K.’s laptop . . .
We camped 3 days 2 nights at Erie Bluffs in Perry Ohio. Thought why travel 3 hours to camp in Pennsylvania when we’ve these sites closer. This section of the Lake County Metro Parks has just one campsite, one single campsite, on a bluff overlooking Lake Erie immediately to the north.
This morning setting at the campfire looking out over the fresh morning lake we see our first bald eagle fly just above our campsite eye line. I took my writing pad, camera, toke, small cedar 5-note Indigenous American flute, and the small hardback Beat Poets to the table on the edge of the bluff to watch while Lady jogged, and the eagle flew by three more times. Have distant fotos if my computer returns.
Status Report 87
Camp in near wood
high bluff Lake Erie
dirt water sky
1st flying eagle
white feather brown feather white
six to eight foot wings
sky, bird, water riding the horizon
me: Fire. Water. Earth. Air.
she: Men. Women.
me: And hot campfire cocoa.
the situation caused the situation
ant empire brought to naught
as new flame licks old log
it’s hard to be fire . . .
you consume yourself,
then go out
fire lives to burn,
burns to die,
the ember coal of the fire king
I take a toke to the dawn
a toke to the sea
a toke for friends
a toke for me
campfire light
rising sun light
inner light
fire eats wood
water eats fire
light eats dark
heat frees water
watch the shadow smoke rise
up log to where the eagle flies
halfmoon sky
lone bird fly
sunplunk sea
light lessen be
day is done
owl hoots in holler
frogs sing in tree
– Smith 9.24.2015