the earth will deliver a long and timeless death to the hunter, return to his oiled gun, and the deer, return to the leaves, and the leaves, return to the dirt, urgent under this torturous moon, all of these boots encrusted with mud, urgent again under these torturous stars, fifteen years of crying, fifteen years of drudging through this slick mud, for the hunter, fifteen years of killing, and fifteen hundred of slow death, deliver back into the wood, deliver this to hang back from the tree, open and deliver cold dirt onto my living heart.
Thank you for taking the time to remember Dave. He saw your zeal and your unconventional ways and he felt…



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