August 22.20: Coping

It never ceases

to amaze,

this gold of

Apollonian rays.

Salad days

are with us yet

in 24-karat

dawn vignette.

 

With thanks to Shakespeare

and to photographer Emily Berg Baine.

May 23.19

Doesn’t purple burn?

Doesn’t it melt

languid

into gold?

Apollo stokes

the coals of dawn

gilding the sky

with alchemy.