PAUL HERTELENDY
AMAZONIANA
Discovery & Self-Discovery, Eastern Peru
FIRE ON THE WATERBy PAUL HERTELENDY
of TheColumnists.comFlooded shores surround a rainy-season creek
Where isolated fishermen on dugout skiffs adroitly fire up their lunchtime
grill
Aboard some tree stumps floating past.
Sturdy structures of survival stem from high-strength building blocks
Like adaptation and imagination.©2010 by Paul Hertelendy. This column was first posted March 8, 2010.
Paul Hertelendy is critic and webmaster for the arts-review web site www.artssf.com, and is also the Piedmont (CA) Centennial poet laureate.
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