The Bixby Creek Bridge

November 30, 2011 - Featured Poets, Poetry - Tagged: , , , , , , , , , , , , - 1 comment

courtesy of Wikipedia

Bixby Creek is a gash in the Palisades
that bleeds fresh water into the Pacific
-John Charles Freemont

Its opened spandrels seem
supportive to a dream
Not of survival
As one might think
But of arrival
Across that vast chink
In the California Palisades.

By Patrick McGuire