Come On In-
Complex skies
“Water has an endless horizon;
there is no limitation when you look out into the water.
There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself
as far as it can possibly imagine.
I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel
about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows
of cornfields.
There is something exhilarating about it.”
Billy Joel
“Water has an endless horizon;
there is no limitation when you look out into the water.
There's nothing to interfere with the mind's eye projecting itself
as far as it can possibly imagine.
I suppose it's the same way people in the Midwest feel
about watching amber waves of grain or endless rows
of cornfields.
There is something exhilarating about it.”
Billy Joel
October light
is like amber
poured over the afternoon.
Even here in the sub-tropics
sunlight wanes, moments a day,
Less harsh,
more of a blessing really.
An embrace of amber
instead of a punch in the face.
Soon all the coffee in Kona
will bloom tiny white blossoms
and red red cherries.
Woven baskets
some decades old
will be worn in the rows
and catch the cherries like before.
On the continent
where I was born
smokey, cooling nights
schocks of leaning corn
scarecrows!
Jack-O-Lanterns
on the porch.
Time passes.
We don't need the geese to rub it in
but we love them;
I love this whole crazy life.
Grab for all the candy
and mischief
you can.
This October
like all the others
will be
unique.
fondly, cloudia
is like amber
poured over the afternoon.
Even here in the sub-tropics
sunlight wanes, moments a day,
Less harsh,
more of a blessing really.
An embrace of amber
instead of a punch in the face.
Soon all the coffee in Kona
will bloom tiny white blossoms
and red red cherries.
Woven baskets
some decades old
will be worn in the rows
and catch the cherries like before.
On the continent
where I was born
smokey, cooling nights
schocks of leaning corn
scarecrows!
Jack-O-Lanterns
on the porch.
Time passes.
We don't need the geese to rub it in
but we love them;
I love this whole crazy life.
Grab for all the candy
and mischief
you can.
This October
like all the others
will be
unique.
fondly, cloudia