I like your take on this! a good balance.
I'd find tropical daylight and darkness very odd, after so many years of
summer/winter contrast.
SallyE
Sally Evans
http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
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From: "Max Richards" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2008 2:18 AM
Subject: Re: Snap: Night so short / long
Snap: Night so long
Winter nights in this southern
latitude drag so long
we lower the blinds at dusk (five)
to keep off the shivers,
keep in the warmed air
we pay so much for.
The sun would not wake us till nine
so the alarm is set for seven.
I raise the kitchen blind
the sky is lightening,
the neighbourıs trees resuming
yesterdayıs un-leaved shapes.
Walking leashed dogs at eight;
our nostrilsı vapour brightens
in the sunıs first rays
shafting to us
through the park trees.
No wind ruffles them today.
The promised storm has
taken its rain elsewhere.
Midwinter drought
is its own season.
Max Richards
Doncaster, Victoria
On 16/7/08 8:06 AM, "Sally Evans" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Here's a new snap. It's a real snap: ie writing now. I think all this fior
> stuff woke us up, but it's getting boring now.
> So. Do snaps have a title?
>
> Night so short
>
> Night so short in summer
> in a northern latitude
> we sleep with the curtain closed
> to keep the sun from waking us at four
> as it sails over the north east horizon and the hills
> heading straight for a rain cloud
> that has dampened the earth and gone
> before we start our routine day
> rubbing our eyes awake
> to be sure we have missed
> the creatures of darkness.
>
>
> Sally Evans
> http://www.poetryscotland.co.uk
> http://groups.msn.com/desktopsallye
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