Sagan Dalya
There they are:
leaves drifting listless
in a steel sink.
A kind of rhododendron tea,
not at all the same as the
toxic variety blooming
in arboreal chains along
this north coast.
“Sagan Dalya” in Buryat.
What an obscure bit of nature
to have infiltrated my damp
sea-blown cottage, and so
distant from its home among
high and arid and rocky soils.
How strange to be so dislocated.
How tragic to travel so far
finally to arrive, only to
drown as refuse in a basin
crowded by so much cold
glass and unfriendly gray water.
Logan Garner lives in Astoria, Oregon, but Indiana's glacier lakes, wetlands, southern wooded hills, and its tilled-row fields remain close to his heart. They founded and persist in his love of nature. His work has been published in journals and anthologies, including three poems recently featured in the Kneeland Center for Poetry’s The Elevation Review. His first collection of poetry, Here, in the Floodplain, has been accepted by Plan B Press and is slated for publication this spring.