August 16

August 16, 2015
by C
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Here another summer
day like any other

just like any other
and between being left

and leaving
I know which I prefer–

Unsettling wind
I wake to news of fire

on the butte
and the power gone out

and KOZI off the air
and level 3 orders

to get out now
and a pile of dead

goats at a ranch
that burned overnight

and horses run off
like open-ended questions–

Only a slight haze,
here, a tinge

of regret, chagrin,
I am far away,

too far away,
a morning like this

and I can only
pick doubt

out of a heavenly
blue sky–

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