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Passion Eddy  

Book two of impromptu trilogy.

  The Evening Light Losing Its Grasp on a Scarred Hillside


Rain having fell like applause and as brief, effusing
showers; rain, emollient, having supplanted the sun

and its sunny light.  Now, clinging as new shine
on the berried pyracantha and the weathered deck

studs and the shining, plastic, outdoor furniture.
Remnants of clouds and gray clouds in bunches

above—a sudden burst of rescue vehicle sounds
going somewhere wrought, distraught, and too needy.

Poinsettias rise in the ungainly and awkward light
and with grace, envy the upstart, unbound, new grasses

dancing in the ancient, cow pasture—oddly aloof and
beyond the recent, unfenced, commercial attractions.



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