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American Summer

Poems written while traveling.

August Snow 


Awoken by raindrops on the canvas,
my exit from the blue and yellow tent

was wet with perspiration and rain.
I saw this sudden coolness as a chance

to scale the Great Sand Dunes in comfort
—which is what we did that afternoon
        in Colorado.

And when we reached the top the rain ceased
as in a fairy tale.  A double-stranded rainbow

rose above the blue-gray Sangre de Christos
as in a fairy tale.  To our quiet astonishment

there was snow on the peaks as the dunes rolled
away behind us like a great, trucked-in sahara.




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