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AT SEASON’S END
Linda Delayen
Today the sun,
A brazen tiger
Roared loudly
As it stalked across
Its whole domain.
Today the sun,
A timid child
Made brief appearances
From behind its mother’s
Flowing skirts.
Tomorrow is winter.
© Linda Delayen |
Long Beach CA, Winter 2000
J. Bohrn photo archive
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Long Beach Winter
Long Beach decides
it's now Winter.
Mist rolls in
on the huddled procession
of buildings swaddled in gray,
this seasonal dance
of cautious light and migrating clouds,
a civil encounter.
A faithful ocean
finds land in the morning-long twilight;
the delicious lethargy
of waking up with the clouds,
day-long hues of wandering gray
wielding uncertainties
in the indecision
of raindrops.
Traffic -- slow sparkling jewels,
inch carefully:
subdued tires tiptoe moist asphalt
in shy wet whispers.
Palm trees sway sanguine prayers
to their sun-god,
abandoned by his seasonal visit
to his Yucatán1 home.
© Jonathan Bohrn (2000) |
1Yu·ca·tán
(yˇ´ke-tŕn, -tän) A
peninsula in southeast Mexico between the Caribbean Sea and the Gulf of
Mexico. The region was home
to the Mayan civilization.
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