Franz Kafka Dreams of Yosemite
Gary Thorp
The Sarcophagid fly has evolved ears on its thorax to help it find singing cicadas. It crawls under the cicada’s wings and lays an egg in the sound-producing organ. In response, the cicada may sing a “protest song” but this seems to have little effect.
–John Muir Laws, The Laws Field Guide to the Sierra Nevada
When one is encroached upon,
one must sing
no matter what the result.The voice may falter, squeak,
or fail us. Still, we must address
the Sarcophagid fly.Ignore everything beneath your heart,
but pay simple attention
to what lifts you.To the evolving ears of the world,
a song of protest, whatever else
it is, is still a song.
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- Cover
- Marsha Balian Jill
- Prose
- Frances Lefkowitz Two Very Short Stories
- Sabine Hoskinson The Sespe
- Jon Langdon Red Rocker
- Jennifer Kulbeck Farallon Stories
- Michael Taylor Stunts
- Denise Parsons The Rancher Whispered
- Hal Ober From Old Hatch’s Almanac
- G. David Miller I Be Loving My Neighbor’s Wife
- Chris Reding Flying
- Betty Davidson The Complexity of the Sparrow
- Robert Kroninger Japs Not Wanted in Winters
- Susan Starbird Commuting in the Valley of Shadows
- Elisabeth Ptak Charles Dickens and Ferguson
- Poetry
- Tobi Earnheart-Gold Spring and Boredom
- Larry Ruth Light
- Scott Mossman The Olives of Olive Drive
- Roy Mash La-Z-Boy
- Heather Altfeld Indian, Wild (Ishi)
- Erin Rodoni Because There Is Loss
- Jody Farrell After Wendell Berry’s Window Poems
- Jed Myers Close to the Earth
- Barbara Finkelstein Return to Sinkyone
- Jocelyn Mata ¡Mi día en México!
- Catlyn Fendler July 31, A Meditation
- Gary Thorp Franz Kafka Dreams of Yosemite
- Lucas Benjamin Phenology
- Kaitlin Deasy The Letter
- Sierra Sabec The Origin of a Piano
- Elizabeth Herron As Light Escapes
- Jan Dederick Help Me Out, Billy
- Madeleine S. Butcher AWESOME
- Art + Artifact
- Paola Martin Canada Goose
- Leslie Allen Clear Spring Trough Above the Pacific,Valley Ford and Spaletta Ranch Barns, Valley Ford
- Elizabeth Sher Arbres arrencats d’ametles (Uprooted Almond Trees)
- Mary Siedman Highway One Trees and Magnolia
- Eva Bell Calla Lily
- Natalie Chavarria, Izabella Guiterrez, and Viviana Villalobos Gonzalez Sunflowers
- Eytan Schillinger-Hyman Serengeti Solitude
- Peter Connors Pacific Marine Algae
- Thomas Wood Northern Point Reyes Peninsula & Bodega Head
- Charles Hoehn West Bay
- Linda Weyl Old Barn on “101”
- Theodore D. Echeverria Poppies Celebrate the First Rains
- Charles Eckart On the Mesa—Point Reyes
- Bob Kubik Good Morning
- Jacqueline Mallegni Wabi-Sabi Basket
- Adah Pinchuk Hyman October Sunset, Tomales Bay
- Vanessa Waring Everyone’s Invited
- Michelle Chayes Mermaid
- Terry Murphy Cat Nap
- T.C. Moore Hay Nets
- Judy Levit Unanswered Questions
- Anne Faught Journal Entry
- Mary K. Shisler Turnips… and Onions…
- Ward Walkup III summer, fall, winter… SPRING!
- Jenny Long Walk
- Susan Putnam Untitled #226
- Isela Carreras Different
- Ashley Eva Brock Shoe Creature
- Ido Yoshimoto Untitled from the Series Astral Planes
- Micheleen Tolson Cyanotype Leaf
- Sawyer Rose Metamorphosis and Costanoa Coral
- Mark Ropers Kite at Stinson Beach
- Music
- Agnes Wolohan von Burkleo Lullaby for Seamus