let this sign : stand for your love : the way
you brought us together : made us equal :
to one another : and you : who lived your life

so well, so full, you made us want to live
our lives too : to taste what we hadn't known :
to know what we hadn't dreamed : to be

more than we had been : to become what
we could be : let this sign : stand
where you stood : between us all : tying us

one to another : showing us which doors
were open : the way to move : toward
one another : and closer to you :

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: facebook :

Though Craig himself has not been recovered, the amazing expert trackers of 1SRG have been able to make themselves and us certain of what has become of Craig. His trail indicates that after sustaining a leg injury, Craig fell from a very high and very dangerous cliff and there is virtually no possibility that Craig could have survived that fall. Chris will pursue what he can about getting specialists to go down into the place we know Craig is so we can bring him home, but it is very, very dangerous and we are not yet completely certain what that will require. The only relief in this news is that we do know exactly what befell Craig, and we can be fairly certain that it was very quick, and that he did not wait or wonder or suffer.

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from a discussion elsehwere:

I will remember forever : not long after we met, we traveled together from Denver to Salt Lake and then to Boise to read at the same conference:

on the way from Denver to Salt Lake, we took a route that wound through the higher plateaus of northern Colorado, through Rabbit Ears Pass, Steamboat :

between Steamboat and Dinosaur we took turns singing Magnetic Fields songs : he was the tenor : I took the low baritone and bass :

we played a game : "How To Be An Elliptical Poet" (apologies to Steven Burt) :

I saw my first Bald Eagle ever :

in Boise the next day before my reading Craig coached me up to what was easily the best reading of my life : he taught me to relax my voice : told me exactly what I needed to hear : that my poems were worth hearing :

and later that night : when he read before the assembled conferees he performed a strip-tease reading, removing an article of clothing while reading each poem :

he was talking back to the Mormons :

Made Flesh was beginning to take place : we'd talked about it on the way from Denver to Salt Lake and again to Boise : and I think it was on this trip that "Incubus" began to take shape and place :

and on the way back we pulled a 12-hour run to Denver ending in midnight and hypnotic now raking across I-80 from Laramie to Cheyenne, the monstrous head of Lincoln rising out of the dark as we fought the wind and night and sleep to get home :

and we did :

and we did :

and we do :

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: University of Wyoming statement

:: Avoiding the Muse (C. Dale Young)

::: Southern Ledger

:::: Edward Byrne