MORE ROCKS

A long-poem sequence that stays with mountains, lakes, and daily perception, using strict rhythmic constraints to turn walking, looking, and thinking into a continuous field of attention.

"More Rocks was written on a backpacking trip in the Sierra Nevada between North Lake and South Lake, 60 miles over three 12,000-foot passes August 15-21, 1994. I wrote in two-line stanzas (four syllables in each line, a mark of punctuation in each pair of lines) as a kind of walking meditation."