'A Dream of Portland'

by Tom Bremer

Rain from the west.

Hands of rain lifting from

a green breast of ocean

to lay down their silver burden

of angels on the heads of fir

trees and houses, on the quick

chests of rivers, and on your

teeming head, my friend.

Amid the rain are bridges.

Everywhere. More bridges than rivers,

more rivers than friends to tell

the exquisite riddle words bring

our flowering skulls.

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