i heard your songs reach out to california a poet’s heart...

i heard your songs reach out to california

a poet’s heart locked in the coeur d’alene

of the old men and the booze singing out the truth in lives

of forgiveness and loyalties to friends,

constant as the endless railroad ties



and you in your elegance and humor fill the room

your love and your concern

your anger at the injustice of man’s narrowness and fear

i thank you for being here.

so here we are joined finally by our words

all poet’s hearts close though far apart

i remember how you said that language is a knife

that spreads what we feel across the dry crust

of someone’s heart.

Kate Wolf: Poet’s Heart - from Poet’s Heart (1985) & Gold in California - A Retrospective (1986)

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