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June 24, Midsummer Day 

6/23/2015

 
Tornado

Looking, in this moment,
at the summer landscape
in all it's birdy fullness and firm greenery

a moment: I sit in bright hot sodden sun
in the leveled
chopped green landscape
strewn with splinters and plastic, and still

that moment peaceful

This moment peaceful,

And later, after a tame storm
has ripped spent petals
from the early herbs, this moment.

And that; there. No dripping foliage
but the slightest stir
of questioning birdsong in bare air.

A prism in my fist
stretched to the sun,
I cast a single
synthetic
rainbow.
Today is the last day of early Summer. "Tornado" is a musing on a Buddhist scrap of wisdom that I'm puzzling out.




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