Water Fire
This matchless, scintillating early Saturday morning,
The wedge of lake just slightly to my eyes' left,
That portion directly under the radiant sun,
Is a dazzlingly faceted brilliant-cut marquise diamond
Flickering with a million pinpricks from the day-star's flames.
My mind, blinded by the rippled skittering of the waves,
Has begun imagining, with some faint trepidation,
That, instead, this might be a grass fire on a glass prairie,
Raging, fast, out of control, toward my cabin,
Not to consume me, rather inspire the rest of my sojourn.
09/18/10 - (1)
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