Coast Town in a Valley by David Francis
Coast Town in a Valley Rays come down geese honk above the flat lake reflecting the mountains lichens slant toward town A northern house with a sharp, sturdy roof starts the town only one skyscraper spoils the horizon on either side coast and cove not blurred but made blue fog in the valley on the hill a leveled fence with unknown burrows footholds stepping between wires and overlooking sliding falling running down mud to roadside flowers the wind blowing the clouds blackening but passing and then out of the sea like oil a few colors shoot straight up over or through rays and end in brown inland only the ends somehow in a moment the sky clears and you see the rainbow Biography: David Francis has produced five albums of songs, one of poems, and "Always/Far," a chapbook of lyrics and drawings. His film "Village Folksinger" has been screened in New York, Texas, Connecticut and England. David's poems and stories have appeared in a number of journals and antholo...