Jim's Eclectic World: Cascade Canyon (among the Tetons)

About Me

Name: Jim Macdonald

Location: Bozeman, MT, United States

Hi, my name is Jim Macdonald, and I have an odd assortment of interests. In no particular order, I love Yellowstone, I am an anti-authoritarian activist and organizer who just moved from Washington, DC to Bozeman, and I have a background in philosophy, having taught at the college level. My blog has a lot more links to my writing and my other Web sites. In Jim's Eclectic World, I try to give a holistic view of my many interests. Often, all three passions show themselves interweaving in the very same blog. Anyhow, I think it's a little different. But, that's me. I'm not so much out there, but taken together, I'm a little unusual.

Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Cascade Canyon (among the Tetons)

Cascade Canyon (among the Tetons)

Pine air overpowers me
So rare that
I notice
what others might
take for granted
waking a nose
often neglected.

Every squirrel
and every marmot
thrills me;
every flower
wows my eyes.
I fumble and stumble
in a granite wonderland.

The climb
is not too harsh--
steep then flat.
To the right,
a Cathedral
To the left,
more than Grand.

How I will
always remember
the Hidden roar
of cascading falls
thundering so
quickly toward
Jenny Lake.

Love reigns in
the erotic veins
of this valley
more than any
act of Congress
or so called
philanthropy.

Myth can be
wiser than history,
but the sweet scents
in these mountains
are stronger still;
here we will talk
of these living dreams.

--JSM

1 Comments:

Anonymous said...: So palpable, Jim...

A philosopher and a poet you are, not to mention an erotic lover of Yellowstone.

Oh yeah, and a lazy bum ;)

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Me; 4/11/07 7:15 AM