"Cycle" (For Kevin A. Merino)

Cycle

 

                   “You’ve got the sun, you’ve got the moon, and you’ve got the Rolling Stones.”

                                                    Keith Richards  

 
                                      
                                                       For Kevin, the history teacher…

 

The moon hangs low

on its fishing line,
dangling at the end of a hook,

episodically close,

dressed in full ball gown,
designed to tempt the nightlife,

those unique souls

whom show themselves
but once a month, suddenly wakened,

celestially vibrant,

cyclically alive, unknowingly
salivating from the influence of the lunar bait.




                          ~~~

First published in print in Conceit Magazine / June 2014

First published online in Home Planet News

http://homeplanetnews.org/AHPNONL8.html
March 2014

"Warming" (Inspired by and Dedicated to - Kevin A. Merino)

 

Warming

 

An hour

before dawn,
so brittle and parched,

mother earth

like sandpaper
this dry winter morning.

Nature thirsts

in anguish before the sun
has even made her daily appearance.

There are those who would deny

the evidence of global warming,
though the signs are all around us,

giving fair warning,

screaming in near-agony from
the gasping throats of continuous drought.

The view

in the distance
a familiar one, and yet not…

still the middle of winter,

this third week in February,
not a white-capped mountain anywhere in sight.




                           ~~~ 

 First published in Full of Crow

http://www.fullofcrow.com/poetry/archives/cristine-a-gruber-april-2014/

April 22, 2014