Thursday, June 25, 2009

S O L S T I C E 2 0 0 9


Definitely!  Those grackles on 

     the deck sound like mynah birds!  

Old salts celebrating 

     the oil-slick boat slips and 

channel marsh at sunset.  

     Vinegar fries and your thighs 

nestled in mine at Cap'n 

     Sunfish's, the old clock tower 

in the west is just a shadow, 

     and in the east, as the lake chill 

blows in, and the fishing boats 

     sputter in on low choke, marsh 

geese natter and complain, the 

     boozehounds here are happy on this 

midsummer night braying, cackling, 

     lowing, whinnying,  you can 

see the stars radiant in their 

     faces, these cake eaters!, 

the wind behind their eyes swirling 

     like the heavens, water stirring 

in the reeds, their souls.  And so 

we are reborn, naked and sensual, 

drunkards, philosophers, swingers, 

     refugees, survivors of the 

hunt a wumpus, the ancien

     regime.  

 



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