LOVE LIVES IN THE DARKEST OF PLACES

The engineer who spilled 20,000 gallons of poison
into the Sacramento River was a railroad man.
The river died for our sins, writes the poet.
It could've been my father, or me, he says.

The river and the town died for their sins.

Love lives in the darkest of places.

10/24 1995


1991 spill
Mike Holland, born in Dunsmuir