Article: Port Angeles: An Apology.(Poems)(Poem)

 
Port Angeles: An Apology 
 
   The wild rum cigarillo dropped atop the grave 
   of Raymond Carver was not mine. Nor did I do 
   anything but watch as a hefty Cuban urinated off 
 
   the cliff at Ocean View Cemetery. Were Dali to paint 
   my visit through your town, I would be butterflies-- 
   not a winnowing stream of yellows and oranges, 
 
   but three small ones lost somewhere behind trees, 
   a blur of motion shading early sunbeams. The Red 
   Lion Inn hosting the 2005 Sasquatch Convention 
 
   could not serve me adequately--I have never collected 
   petrified droppings from the forest floor, nor have I worn 
   a ...

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