Wednesday, December 22, 2010

THE LAST DAY OF WINTRY WEATHER, THE MANGYAN MAIDEN AND HER LOVERS


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if i should love again
wails barry manilow on u tube
it's 6:30
in the
still-cold
6th morning
in theodore roetke's worst ugly day
a dark, dark sunday in december

the rain-shattering storm from hawaii
is leaving, the tail wind howling
and lashing the leafless oakwoods
outside the house in winchester

in the grassy yard lined with potted
desert plants, young coconut-like palm trees
quake to the roots, their fronds
swishing
and
swishing
and
swishing
like the black tresses of a frail woman
weeping for her lovers in the night of dreams.*


Andres Miguel Pasion (aka Peter La. Julian)


*Nairaman iti antolohia dagiti dandaniw, "Umayka Manen, Ganggannaet/Come Again, Stranger"

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