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photo by Daniel E. Williams

CONTACT

yosepoet@msn.com

PO Box 2032
Wawona, CA 95389
209-375-6721

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Daniel Williams
Wawona, California

POTENTIALLY AVAILABLE TO GO TO SCHOOLS TO DO READINGS AND/OR WORKSHOPS

BIO

Daniel Williams resides in the Yosemite region of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of northern California. He has an M.A. in English Literature from San Jose State University, and has taught at Foothill College, Columbia College and Metro State in Denver. His work has recently appeared in Artlife, Grrrr...Poems About Bears, A Fine Frenzy: Poets Respond to Shakespeare, Sierra Songs and Descants, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Tiferet, Heartlodge, Tree Magic, Steam Ticket, Kerf, Minnetonka Review, The Great American Poetry Show, Sea Stories, Rattlesnake Review, and Imagination & Place.

PUBLICATIONS

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BOOKINGS

2010

    POEM

IN THE RIVER THUNDERSTORM

Silent river yesterday
Battered with heavy rains today
Beaten tin and lapping
Heavy smoke of water
Bounces off the surface
Already soaked I
Plunge in

Mountain torrents caught
And flowing in the colder
Swifter foam boiling
Over stones
Fills the current
With bubbles
All the way to quieter pools
Dappled with trout

I am where everything is silence
Voices of wind tormented trees
Heard only as alder leaves
Spiraling slowly through green
And gold to a gravel bottom
Rain only felt in its collective
Soul pushing my 200 pound
Body sleek as a seal
Toward distant invisible seas

I cease to think
Vision blurred
Warmth escapes me
Until I stand shivering
Under a weeping sky
Boulders of thunder
Rolling away down canyon
And I very sure that if I could speak
Nothing at all would hear me

Daniel Williams

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