Tuesday, July 26, 2011

Dune grass

Gray skies today,
a fine mist falling,
and the dune grass --
yesterday so high,
taller even than I am --
is bent  now,
its sharp green shoulders
bowed with the weight
of dew
and fog
and mist,
or perhaps that is its back
arched awkwardly,
straining,
desperate,
for a sip of light.

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