Cara Chamberlain

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Or there's a revelation, or a slow unfolding. You can rush out to experience, or vision can draw you inward to imagine hidden worlds. You can, as William Blake said, see the world in a grain of sand, or in a garfish, or in a frog's eye, or in a sweep of imagined Asian steppe. However it happens, the Hua Yen Buddhists have such discovery pegged: "When contracted, all things are manifested in one particle of dust. When expanded, one particle of dust will universally permeate everything." (from Fa-tsang, Hundred Gates to the Sea of Ideas of the Flowery Splendor Scripture)    </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> From the book:</div> <bR> <div> <I>The Bone Picker</I></div> <bR> <div>   <I>   the air is patriarchal and smells of sadness . . .</I></div> <div> <I>               -Pablo Neruda</I></div> <bR> <div> Wind barrels across this plain, </div> <div> knocks me full force. I stagger.</div> <div> By the end of a day of this, I've aged </div> <div> a century to sleep off again.</div> <bR> <div> Every week I make a fortune. </div> <div> Cart fills with bones, </div> <div> some weathered smooth, a few roughed up </div> <div> by sand blown July to June.</div> <bR> <div> Once a month I go to town, pitching </div> <div> ribs, legs, and jaws on heaps </div> <div> twelve miles along railroad tracks. </div> <div> Hoofs and horns sell by the pound.</div> <bR> <div> When my share is tallied, money lines </div> <div> my pockets. I head to the bar,</div> <div> grab a steak and some beer. Piano music </div> <div> through smoky dusk drifts off-key.</div> <bR> <div> Like a judge, a buffalo skull watches </div> <div> the cash register, but herds </div> <div> still move, though it's piece by piece as I pick </div> <div> their bones till my cart is full.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I>Osprey</I></div> <bR> <div> Watch</div> <div> in the slowest current,</div> <bR> <div> how the moon is cured</div> <div> after a fish hawk</div> <div>                </div> <div> has broken it</div> <div> with spread talons.</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Cara Chamberlain is a graduate of the Purdue University Creative Writing Program. Her short story "White Deer" won the Whetstone Prize, and she has received three Pushcart Prize nominations. Her work has appeared in <I>CutBank, The Spoon River Poetry Review, The Southern Review, The MacGuffin</I><I>,</I> and other magazines. Her <I>The Devil's Party</I> was a finalist in the 2004 Low Fidelity Press Novella Contest. She is working on a novel trilogy. A member of what her son calls a "traveling band of English teachers," she has lived in Billings, Montana; Lakeland, Florida; Fort Kent, Maine; and Powell, Wyoming. She has taught courses at Rocky Mountain College in Montana, Montana State University-Billings, Florida Southern College, the University of Maine at Fort Kent, the University of Moncton-Edmundston in Canada, and Northwest College in Wyoming. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> Hidden Things</div> <div> is an 84 page hand-stitched paper book w/spine.</div> <div> $16.00</div> <bR> <bR> <div> TO ORDER  ON-LINE                                              <A HREF="id42.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Ordering By Mail"><U>To order through mail click here.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> From the US or Canada        <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Hidden Things"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-02"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <div> From Other Countries            <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/en_US/i/btn/sc-but-01.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="add" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Hidden Things"> <input type="hidden" name="item_number" value="09-02"> <input type="hidden" name="amount" value="16.00"> <input type="hidden" name="no_note" value="1"> <input type="hidden" name="shipping" value="5.00"> <input type="hidden" name="currency_code" value="USD"> </form>  </div> <bR> <div>  <form target="paypal" action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_cart"> <input type="hidden" name="business" value="fhp@foothillspublishing.com"> <input type="image" src="https://www.paypal.com/images/view_cart.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!"> <input type="hidden" name="display" value="1"> </form>  </div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>