Central California Poetry Journal

Volume 2000 Number 1

The Poetry of Central California Page 0006

The Poetry of Lucy Aron

Lucy Aron has published poetry and essays in magazines, newspapers, and anthologies including The Cleveland Plain Dealer, Friends Journal, the Phoenix, Grit, Orange Coast Magazine.In addition to being a writer, Lucy Aron is an animal-assisted therapist, musician, and student of Buddhism.

Lucy Aron resides just outside of Sebastopol in beautiful Sonoma County with her husband, a Golden Retriever, a black cat named Mr.Cooper, and 6 sheep.

Death Valley

i. first view

mountain pass high
west rim
curving
steep down
up
down

there-

red
electric emptiness
glittering
silence

narrow sweep
sienna suffused
with white
parched
salts
ridge-rimmed
sanctuary of light

like breathing
after being
too
long
under
water
air just minted

ii. raven

you can see desert
in his feathers
hardscrabble black
almost
glistens

but when he flies
even on liftoff
just feet
above the ground
roll & tumble
aerial magician
not a sign
of thirst

v. song

if the Valley
were music-
slow
shuffle
for solo
tenor
sax

vi. so close

midday she trots
near road's edge
cardboard skinny
coyote

we slow down
stop, she pauses
so close i can see
the pink of her tongue

more hungry
than afraid
looks desiccated
as the mesquite

artless beggar
a tenderness
in the eyes
survivor, i know
still i worry
as we drive off
what if

the next person
she cadges
doesn't see the genial
gypsy soul
sees only
a predator's teeth
in her half-open
(smiling?) mouth

so close
he can blow
her away

dreaming clouds

led by its pink
wrinkled light bulb
head the buzzard

cruises the wind
with wings the span
of a man spread

in a shallow vee
a thousand feet
high sweeps the sky

in cirrus arcs
woven to the wind
yet stone still

with barely a flap
of its monk's-breath
wingbeat contemplates

these hills a dark
serene float searching
for death's footprints

the head tilts
down indifferent
eyes see only

me looking
back up bound
to the warp

and weft
of this ridge
dreaming clouds

untitled

new to northern home
i seek patterns for guidance
amid confusion-
geometry of cedars
birdsong rhythms at daybreak

All text and images in The Central California Poetry Journal are copyrighted. Copyright by © by Scott Galloway 2000. All rights are reserved. See main Journal page for copyright information.
Authors and poets submitting original materials to this journal retain all rights to theiroriginal work, except those rights specifically assigned in writing to Solo Publications including the right to publish the submitted work in The Central California Poetry Journal. The poems on this page are copyrighted by the author. Copyright © Lucy Aron 2000.

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