A Woman and Her Hawk by Ron Dart

To Karin (Amor vincit omnia). Once upon a time, there was a woman and a hawk. They lived in a small village, in a smaller Swiss canton, high in the Alps. The village was a quiet and peaceful place. The people worked hard, and they certainly knew how to play and dance...

Rare by Ron Dart

Rare,          the bow                       so low,                          ...

Skagit Valley by Ron Dart

(For Curly Chittenden and all those valiant for the earth.) They gutted the gorge and valley decades back. Villages and homes are now gone, decaying, down, done. Dams 3 levels high climb, like giant cement ladders, up up the Skagit Valley, pump energy to...

Marya Fiamengo: Red Tory Poet by Ron Dart

Marya Fiamengo is a nationalist, and a moderate feminist. As a nationalist, she leans towards the Red Tory position. –Patience After Compline (1989) The saint needed by each culture is the one who contradicts it the most. –G.K. Chesterton I The Low...

Sumas Energy 2

by Ron Dart To Patricia Ross Most slept, warmed by work, bread and calming circuses. Most flitted between dawn and dusk, the light and fight for a better day, far from sight, soul and soil. She, eyes ever alert for the right things, soul attuned to beating things, saw...