by David Feela
By now a number two shaded dusk 
has settled across California.
Redwoods leaning toward the ocean
cast immense shadows
like a million Ticonderoga pencils
assigned an hour of homework
after a listless summer vacation.
On the east coast it’s already 
too late to get started, 
good intentions fast asleep,
lulled by a melodious surf  
as it erases every shoreline. 
David    Feela's work has appeared in hundreds of regional and national    publications. His    first full length poetry book, The Home Atlas,    is now available. A book of essays, How Delicate These Arches: Footnotes From the Four Corners will be available this fall from Raven's Eye Press.
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