Stephen,
Have we met here in the Springs? Pardon my memory--it's so jammed with details--five books in the works, lots of teaching and traveling--I hardly remember my own name half the time.
Poems, however, are easy to remember.
Well, one thing that's not right with "El Rio" is that I got Masonic iconography wrong--it should be the square and compass, not the eye and compass. I suppose I thought at the time that the poem just didn't lift off the ground the way I wanted it too. It's a rather muted piece of rough blank verse. But then a tone of mutedness is what it's about in a way, isn't it, and perhaps you know the town of Trinidad, where it's set? I've done a longer poem (seventy odd- two-beat lines) on the San Luis valley--sometime I'll post that one for you.
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