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Rod on Maui, August 2003.
Photo by John Scoggins.
©2003 by Stanyan Entertainment.
A Thought for Today
Each of us is special because of our
differences.
A
FLIGHT FROM6THE
PAST
AUTUMN POEMS - 30 September 1999
You wouldn't know it's autumn here in Southern California, it has been
unseasonably warm with no rain. I even took a chance and set out a dozen
new tomato plants on the off chance that El & La Nino will keep it warm
enough for me to harvest yet another crop. Today the temperatures hovered
around 100.
But the calendar does indicate autumn and it is the last day of September
so I've decided to print a few extra autumn poems.
Autumn
Moth fill up the morning
and spiders slide down shafts
of sunlight.
It is the autumn of the year
the wind now makes a long,
slow moan.
Tired of all the old Octobers
the moan is more a sigh.
Resigned like those of us
who face the wind
the wind itself on seeing autumn
runs to hide.
-from "Too Many Midnight's," 1981
Autumn Is The Mother Church
Always in autumn the hunted hundred
moving separately from the circle
going off into the world
always in autumn.
.
I kneel before the night
my mother church
and taking its round face into my hands
I pull it to me.
I've learned to take each night
as a newfound love,
each autumn night
Is now my friend for keeps
my mother church.
-from Folio #57 & Celebrations of the Heart\, 1975
ADDENDUM
Getting anxious to head back home. Why is it that no matter what hotel,
inn or spa you stay in anywhere in the world your room is always the
furthest from the ice machine on your floor?
Sleep warm.
RM 9/29/2003 6:16 AM PDT.
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