Elk and Aspen @ Frigg

As always a fantastic presentation in Frigg! Of "Elk and Aspen" Ellen said, This work is incredible. Dennis Mahagin, Frigg's poetry editor, read it and let me know what he thought, and he said he LOVED it. He said, "In a hunter's milieu, a man hacks at some trees with language a sanctuary against death. The poem had rewards in store for a diligent reader. Those last five lines kill it." (He means "kill it" in a good way.) All I can say, I guess, is that the poem is beautiful, which is enough ... more than enough." In the last stanza we learn that the elk are singing Mahler's Song of the Earth.