Randall Chandler
Boundary Waters

fishing in the land
that glaciers scarred
the land of wolves
bears and eagles
air pure floating balm
on fevered skin
water clean and placid
ancient and new
wide winged birds
soar with beauty
with a silent eye
for the meat below

tents under green giants
grown eternal
cook fires break the stillness of night
men sit silent in the cathedral
of nature attuned to the life force
surrounding like fog

the resting time
the healing time

Randall Chandler was born in 1941 in Lowmansville, Kentucky. He attended two years at EKU, being an indifferent student at best. He joined the workforce, and at different times in his life has been a salesman, a logger, small business owner, a coal mine electrician, and a long distance truck driver. He says, “Since retiring I try to do only those things that I enjoy.”