September, Inverness
Robert Hass
Tomales Bay is flat blue in the Indian summer heat.
This is the time when hikers on Inverness Ridge
Stand on tiptoe to pick ripe huckleberries
That the deer can’t reach. This is the season of lulls—
Egrets hunting in the tidal shallows, a ribbon
Of sandpipers fluttering over mudflats, white,
Then not. A drift of mist wisping off the bay.
This is the moment when bliss is what you glimpse
From the corner of your eye, as you drive past
Running errands, and the wind comes up,
And the surface of the water glitters hard against it.
Contributors
Many talented individuals are featured in the West Marin Review. Please click below for this volume’s contributors.
- Cover
- Thomas Heinser Jersey Heifer
- Prose
- David Miller Wallace Stegner, West Marin, and the Geography of Hope
- Claire Peaslee Plunge
- Jules Evens Lightness of Being
- Michael Parmeley Tea Time
- Nancy Kelly Seasons
- Dewey Livingston M.B.Boissevain, Farm Advisor, 1924–1933
- Mark Dowie The Fiction of Wilderness
- Jody Farrell Picnic in the Park
- Doris Ober Owl Out of Heaven
- Sage Van Wing Brothers At Arms
- Steve Heilig Secret Vacation
- Tucker Malarkey Eating the Environment
- Elisabeth Ptak Bishop Pine
- Poetry
- Larry Hampton Untitled (A salmon hears)
- Robert Hass September, Inverness
- Barbara Swift Brauer Changing Forecast
- John Korty The Rules of Composition
- Nancy Bertelsen Graffiti Bridge
- Devi Weisenberg Elders at Shell Beach
- Samonti Smith Advertisement
- Talyha Romo Untitled (I am from the trophies)
- Natalie Goldberg For M.H.; Poem
- Agnes Wolohan Smuda von Burkleo Blackberry Pie II
- Art + Artifact
- Jack Welpott North Coast
- Steve Pring Swimming in Tomales Bay
- Cheryl Higgins Redwing
- Todd Pickering Limantour Beach Sand
- Nancy Stein Wave #8
- Susan Hall Bay Fishing
- Marna Clarke Madrone #29
- Silas Blunk Untitled Works
- Dan McCormick Restorative Art on Olema Creek
- Wendy Schwartz Wood Shop, Route One
- Marty Knapp Blue Oak Group; Hillside Oaks
- Igor Sasevitch Adios Point Reyes Station
- Andrew Romanoff Diving Bird
- Artists in the Schools Program The Watershed Project
- Patrick Gavin Duffy Steep Ravine Cabin #4
- Jack Wellpot Requiem for Wendy
- Inez Storer Highway 101, L.A. Postcard
- Leslie Goldberg Caution
- Music
- Joyce Kouffman Winter Reverie