Sipping Beer in the Shadow of God

JOHN MUIR'S AUGUST HEAD

John Muir's queer and sundry quotations and exclamations shine through pane after pane of Yosemite Valley's buildings. Less a ghost and more of a sacred mascot, his bearded visage seems to hang down from every shaggy tree and to impose itself in the crinkled cliff-shadows on every side of this immense religious fosse into which tourists pour as amply as blood or wine. "How glorious a greeting the sun gives the mountain " "I never saw a discontented tree." "The mountains are calling, and I must go."

My other books on CreateSpace are:

createspace.com/3842640 Of flares, of flowers (142 erotic sonnets)

createspace.com/3679722Greetings from Mt. Olympus (Collected poems)

createspace.com/3671917 Sipping Beer in the Shadow of God (Travel Notes and Prose Poems in the spirit of Basho)

createspace.com/3646295 Evil Interludes (Novella inspired by the life of the French symbolist poet, Charles Baudelaire)

createspace.com/3679708 The Singing Well (YA coming-of-age novel)