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American Summer
Poems written while traveling.
Moments of Solitude
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1: The Evening Light Lighting the Aspen A cooling wind now lessens the afternoon heat. Having slipped into the mountains for solace—rocking in a chair on the old, cabin porch. 2: Brothers Rocking in a chair on the cabin porch, musing. A group of boys playing on a grassy sweep, taunting one another. Dad stands by a picnic table, finishing dinner. 3: Summer Idle Rocking in a chair on the cabin porch. Odd how time consents to slow now and then—something has built a web on an aspen limb. Something I've never seen. 4: The Poet Reveals His Source Rocking in a chair on the cabin porch, a chipmunk eyeing me from a stone step. On a cool gust of summer breeze, the wisp of a poem comes to me. 5: Summer Morning What other occasion can promise as much as a clear mountain morning. Cloudless sky, the aspen stilled. Insects hovering in the cabin shade. 6: Vermillion Cliffs Beauty stands in wonder purely by the slow notion. Beauty abounds so simply. Trembling in the wind, tiny white flowers surround my feet. 7: Reprise Hiking now on a desert trail in the midday heat. Over abundant sun. I pause to wonder where my fears stem from as my mind slowly clears from the cicadas' love song. 8: Desert Endless mountains devoid of thought. Endless pylons. Endless nothing. The thought of endless nothing. Endless romance. 9: Television Screen 6:26 am in a hotel room. Light slipping in from under the curtains. Staring at the black rectangle, pondering how abstract my dreams have become. 10: Listless Solitude … and then something, some small thing, brings it to an end. You rise from a chair, languid with being, stretch, run your fingers through your hair and then go on with living. back | ToC
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