Senryu Renga: CALIFORNIA MOTHERLOVER

 
1
Coleman Valley,
long snake to her Russian gushing
flashes her wild Iris

2
Point Reyes quakes
her visitors’ center to her epicenter
she wrecked “the City”

3
we all watch the show
red erect tower, fog flowing
blowing the Golden Gate

4
maverick surfers
Pacifica shows huge
comes in swells

5
alphas, which one's bigger
Año Nuevo’s harem keepers,
beta screws them all

6
hikers' finds:
Ferlinghetti's cabin resting
up Bixby's crack  

7
capturing what cannot be
Muir, Steinbeck, Adams, Rexroth,
wanton lovers  

8
her Sierra
leave tall sequoias glistening
her rivers fill oceans

Art Credit: "Contentment" by Maxfield Parrish, detail.

Author's Note: originally for the Mother Nature Competition