Outer Channel Lite: A Reading of Rolf Forsberg's 'The Ark'

The Outer Channel

Dateline: September 24th, 2018 Why when i was a child did the old folks shake their heads and sigh... things are different today the summers were longer once with fragrant winds in evening there were storks and chimneys then and crickets why did they tell me things are different now once the small mouth bass would leap from under the lotus snapping at dragon flies once there were green mosses on the river stones why did they tell me how theyd map it out for me as far they'd say as the eye could see was wilderness all around there was a lake here then where beavers toiled and deer would drink there were lakes they say and bobcats too and wild poppies blooming why did they map it out that way i'm not one for calling creatures by pet names for sugaring the wild blood for housebreaking the sturdy beast into an erratic version of myself i like a falcons talons to stay sharp we are of the same stuff these creatures and I of the same wild elements combined in a chemistry of spit and sperm in the spirit to survive...