Isolation

Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout.

 

Down Valley a smoke haze

Three days heat, after five days rain

Pitch glows on the fir-cones

Across rocks and meadows

Swarms of new flies.

 

I can not remember things I once read

A few friends, but they are in cities.

Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup.

Looking down for miles

Through high still air.

 

- Gary Snyder.

Done