Two readings, similar poem, by Peter Menkin
Yellow w/orange square...(2000)
poem by Peter Menkin
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August rain, summer
relieved as yellow
cools the later months.
Against the larger
sky below walks
the path alone common
stranger afoot, a lone
vision this existential
separation by the orange
square stays transitory;
sound the long highway
travelers north: growl to stretch
northward. The light rain
waters 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.
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 rain
waters 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.
