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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