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Waiting
On A Winter
The sun breaks
Through the horizon’s
daystorm
Southerly confident northerly
not
Rain falls in
buckets until more wind moves this storm along a bit
The birds are
undeterred
Everything is
soaking up the rain
The conifer trees,
the tall grass, the blackberry brambles
The woodpile, the
gutters and the goldfish pond
This earth is a
sponge ready to receive
A sustaining stormy
winter
A crashing ocean on
headlands
Spraying wet winter feedback
Onto the ice plants
and the burnpiles of skotch broom
As the rain falls
harder and most humans hunker
On this coastal El
Nino afternoon
As this Pacific
Storm pacifies this bone dry landfall
Spreading far and wide
across the land of the drought
Eroding, yes, but
what choice do we have
When Mother Nature’s
whimsy catches a breeze or doesn’t?
All the cycles are
cycling and
All the circles will
complete themselves
As the hard rain
falls on soft mud
As the tough yet tender
humans hunker down
Waiting on a winter
like never before
12.20.2015
Caspar
sf
