FROM CITY TO COUNTRY
[From San Francisco to Arcata--

From Boy to Man For Good--

Having Put Away Childish Things]

A Poem
(Written in 1998)




Wanderer of heart and soul that I be

I had to emerge from the great city

To the country when I was but a boy

For the unnaturalness of the irrationality

And the cities atmospheres of total decay

Caused my mind to desire to be free

From all the colossal insensitivity

That is so rampant with no pity

In such large places so un-pretty

And led me to seek and find only

Natural vastness, joy and beauty

From then on to be completely free

Of the very imprisonment of the monstrosity

For the lasting peace of the country

And only expanding vistas of purity

That even still my "restlessness-ity"

Towards that to please and satisfy

Has not been able to truly free

My longing to assuage or pacify

And find final peace from the necessity.