Find all my posted poetry through the link below. I am currently working on poetry collection titled Reasoning Machine that will be available later this year.
Poem on the Month:
LAKE AVENUE SMOKESTACK TO HEAVEN
A thousand miles upstream,
where things are finally green—
where the sun is so close,
yet so cold.
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Like the top of Lake Avenue
on an evening Harley ride,
looking back at Altadena
after pulling off to the side.
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Fog came down like a holy mist
and greyed out the sky,
but the roads twinkled through
like silver rivers binding
our city to the stars.
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A stairway to heaven
for those houses that flew away
as columns of toxic smoke
when we wanted them to stay.
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The land’s beauty inseparable
from its ability to burn.
And the greener it gets
the sooner is its turn.
Because the weeds catch the spark
always in november
a new seasonal arc
blending when remembered.
photo I took in 2020 during Woolsey fire that burnt down my house.
Kalvin M. Madsen 