ROY HAMRIC WRITES

Circling the Big Bend

Insect dialogue clearly has escaped
The net of rhetoric

Yet, the natural world
Does speak to something

Epic dramas do appear
in flickering shadows

Birds do sing
Pure sound

I now know why
The Great Rivers Way is fixed
Down

It's all a sacred search

Thus written, I
formally nominate
For President
The empty space
above the green basin
Formed by the Chisos Mountains

But the spell
Can't be held
Or, as Heidegger quips
Living life
Is somewhat unfamiliar
to us all

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Roy Hamric was the editor of the former weekly newspaper, The Desert-Mountain Times, in Alpine, Texas. He edited a collection of newspaper columns, Archer Fullingim: A Country Editor's View of Life, which won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Work of Journalism Award in 1976, and he took the photographs for The Big Thicket. For many years, his photographs regularly appeared in Wowapi publications.