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Passion Eddy  

Book two of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Illuminating a Coastal Fog


To listen to the sea is the wish to inspire it.
It transcends as a swell longing to occur

in all things discovered by extrapolation.  Melody
is exactly that.  Let's begin the adagio ourselves.

Sipping latté on a redwood deck desire pauses
as the perfect host stilled by a summer fog.

Satisfaction is a little inlet meeting the gray sea
where pines rise from rocky, yellow slopes.  Houses.

The sea licks the tanned cliffs with avarice.  Fishing boats
drift on the big swells offshore.  And the cormorants

roost in the panic of tide on the rookery—the sun
settling through the fog, odd bird, the only color
      to this.



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