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Diesel Eddy  

Book three of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Unfolding as a November Sunset


Clustered headlights, the throbbing brakelights
we associate with the evening commute—silhouettes

of pylons; silhouettes of urban palms; restricted
movement and duress.  The land blackened by shadow.

The sky orange if not blue.  Small bright lights
coming on in the downtown towers—pattern lights

or a stunning, facial reflection.  The evening
begins as a surrealist notion in the alluring suburbs

(where grassy medians protect ornamental swans).
The sun somewhere behind the diminished coast range

framed obliquely by a hefty overpass, the interstate
signing, bronchial autumn trees—their diffuse
      leafless erections.



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