Tense Futures
You spend the morning with sunsets
looking up their times in various months
at various places refusing to have sunsets
ruined this year having learned
in corporate speak to sunset is to shutter
to bring a thing to its end
What will be taken next the eel-laced reef
algae cozying up to rock a sky-bound thing
each cloud a bandage for a future wound
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This poem resonates with me. And the imagery is fantastic. Thank you for writing this.
Thanks for reading it, Philip!
Powerful–“to sunset is to shutter / to bring a thing to its end” and the strong images following “What will be taken next.”
Thanks, Karen!
I am finally getting around to reading your work on LexPoMo. (It’s hard to keep up with poets here.) I love this poem it’s ecological sensibility, concision and the positive/negative implications of sunset(s).
Thanks, Linda!