Cold Air Masses
Your requiem is rising
from a wailing sea.
It blends among inconsolable
gull cries, beyond
your hearing.
Every fluctuating wave
calls to mind your unexpectant
departure, and now there
is no unharboured bird
more destitute
than I.
Your requiem is rising
from a wailing sea,
about to abort your awayness
and skepticism with yet
more in the series
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Equilibrium: Part Iii
Through the darkling hallways
at an interval before nightfall,
he plods along in solitude
without a sound,
his arctic facade
an elegy to Spring
as he carries
his spendthrift youth
to the water's edge.
Yet stamina swells
with each movement
toward the black sea line.
He comes to know
laughter once more,
avers exuberance,
collects sargasso, shells, driftwood,
Nature's invincibility;
and eventually, altogether filled,
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