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Sunday, February 14, 2010

August rains (revise, new title)...
poem by Peter Menkin

August rain, summer relief,
cools the later months.
Against the larger
sky below walks
the path alone common
stranger afoot, a lone

vision this existential
separation stays transitory;
sound the long highway
travelers north: growl to stretch

northward. The light rainwaters with relief
stark realities finite.
A mortal vision sighted
before the season changes.

This scene told anew, loneliness,
California climate norm.
Come the time of year
punctuated weather portents.

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