Living The Labyrinth Poems and Photographs By Mary DeDanan At First Light At first light the western horizon is layers of color above an ocean of clouds. A band of blue, the color of a god's soft skin. A band of rose, like a silken sari, slowly settling as though slid off faint shoulders, and forgotten. The sun rises from the opposite sky, long fingers reaching. Touching. The breeze exhales gently. Lovers' memory begins the day. "Sunrise, Looking West" ©Mary DeDanan "Little Black Mountain Looking West by Northwest"©Mary DeDanan Rain First rain in the earliest morning. Moist rustling in the darkness beyond the open window. The air sweet with earth. The fragrance of dried grasses, suddenly wet. Light comes, gray and shy. I return to dreams, as real as the rain.   Radiant Fire Stars' radiant fire holy beyond all telling. Soft, enter this heart.     Wild Iris- Photographer Unknown Wild Iris Wild iris holding each other through the wind. Soft petals veined with blue and gold-white lace. Stamens hidden like prayer. Connected in their rhizomes to all that came before. Living The Labyrinth, Poems and Photographs By Mary DeDanan © Mary DeDanan 2000. All Rights Reserved. © Spencer Creek Press, West By Northwest 2000-2002 All Rights Reserved unless otherwise noted. The opinions expressed by the authors are not necessarily the opinions of the publisher and/or sponsors. publisher@westbynorthwest.org webmaster@westbynorthwest.org West by Northwest Spencer Creek Press PO Box 51251 Eugene OR 97405 West By Northwest Voices of Peace, Volume V Dr. Andreas Toupadakis' Notebook W.H. Auden's poem September 1, 1939 Sam Smith of the Progressive Review writes Nobody Left But Us Robert Jenson explains why extraordinary Corporate Power Is the Enemy of Our Democracy DynCorp is Something to Watch Norman Solomon on New Media Heights For A Remarkable Pundit, Pentagon's Silver Lining May Be Bigger Than Cloud, and Six Months Later, The Basic Tool Is Language Patrick Morris, actor and director writing on the theatre's Hourglass Challenge Marvelous Margaret Mead Traveling Film & Video Festival World Choral Music Photographer and web designer Stephen Voss Stephanie Korschun's Insect Drawings, a class apart. That Photo Guy, Barbara S. Thompson's My Life chronicles a journey of courage by a real story teller, Chapter 3. Mary Zemke of Stop Cogentrix says "Standing tall - Opposition floods the proposed Grizzly Power Plant." Norman Maxwell writes to the Editor - a Summary of the Fire Road Preservation Struggle. Patricia Frank tackles Spring Cleaning the Closet. Lois Barton's Sunnyside of Spencer Butte finds the Heron Rookery. M.G. Hudson's Spencer Creek Journal remembers Laddie and the baby goats as the war on terrorism affects Spencer Creek Valley Ryan Ramon's Life on the 45th Parallel, Rain & Ramallah. WxNW.org Web-Wise Links DEN, from Defenders of Wildlife. Archive Early Spring 2002 Winter 2001-2002 Fall 2001 Late Summer 2001 Summer 2001 Late Spring 2001 Early Spring 2001 Winter 2000-01 Fall 2000 Late Summer 2000 Summer 2000 Spring 2000