Near the Confluence

Rerun from Dec 2023

Photo by Jonathan Potter ⓒ 2023

Dizain

Near the confluence of the Yakima
And the mighty Columbia, the sun
Is setting over the teeth of a saw
Biting into the day soon to be done,
And the night soon to begin, a rerun
Of the night before and the day that dawned
Before that, when, rising from bed, I yawned
And pulled the curtain open in my room
For a view of the parking lot and, beyond
That, the future strange as an empty tomb.

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