A Woman Bathing

Naches River. Just below the falls.
Twenty miles from any town. A day
of dense sunlight
heavy with odours of love.
How long have we?
Already your body, sharpness of Picasso,
is drying in this highland air...
...TIME IS A MOUNTAIN LION.
We laugh at nothing...
...and
even the ground squirrels
are dazzled

-Raymond Carver

04-19-2007

Check out Simon's short story "The Only Reasonable Explanation" in the spring edition of Storyglossia .