RICHARD HUG0
1923-1982)
(in memory)



On the Pacific Northwest
I'm the dock
of the sea port
he/she the local doctor
you, our Richard Hugo
are the poster poet
for preserving our wilderness
a protector of animals
and fauna
a world without boundaries
for meeting a natural world
in the name of language
embracing landscapes
of sad poor failed towns
everyone wanted to escape
impoverished of spirit,
with its cry of loneliness
boredom and rage
a poet emerges for our age.