Two A.M.
For a place that's often tumult, chaos, wind-din,
Throughout each of the seasons,
Dawn to noon to dusk to midnight,
This lake space, named Nebagamon,
Is inordinately serene, peaceable, becalmed,
This forty-degree night of dark light,
Close in winter's focus.
And here am I (or is it my spirit?),
Meditating, on my dock, at two a.m.,
Tingling with September exhilaration,
Over water so still,
I can hear fish swishing through the stars,
Three fathoms below the cosmos,
Enticing November's ice into this lake's shape.
09/22/11 - (5)
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