Lingering Light

Poetry of Dawn and Autumn

Even here in the desert we are bidding farewell to summer. This evening has been punctuated by bouts of hearty, heavy, cold rain. But the confidence of sunlight is still captured in this issue of Green Ink Poetry, with its theme “Luminesence”. It includes my own poem “Where the Sunlight Stays”, first published here on ACM Weekly.

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Meantime, the skies here may be blue or stormy, but they are always dramatic.

Herding the Clouds

The upper breezes
Herd their flock 
Of small white clouds
Through the blue fields,
Taking the old wind trail
Along the tops
Of the knife-edged mesas.

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Early Dawn

The dark clouds
Are plumed like smoke, drifting
Sideways in the lucent, yellow gap
That illumines the black
Mountain crests.

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Finally, there are other denizens of autumn!

A large grasshopper
lands upon the house wall: Plonk!
Old, brown October.

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