Wizard Island magically collects a
blizzard of clouds and misty webs
of fog that stretch out over the lake
like a Native weaver’s thread of
delicate fabric woven across a
snowy shoreline with rising mountains
above this little wizard of an island
in the midst of a vast volcanic lake,
remaining calm, cold and reflective.
—
Richard Fleck’s poems have appeared in a variety of journals in US, Canada, and Japan. His Introduction to the 125th anniversary edition of John Muir’s Our National Parks will be published next month by the University of Wisconsin Press.
