Oakland Writer, Poet and Editor Paul Corman-Roberts Blog » Gloom Cupboard http://paulcormanroberts.com Mon, 27 Dec 2010 22:42:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 Escape From SF Public Library: http://paulcormanroberts.com/2009/08/12/escape-from-sf-public-library/ http://paulcormanroberts.com/2009/08/12/escape-from-sf-public-library/#comments Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:54:40 +0000 Paul Corman-Roberts http://paulcormanroberts.com/blog/?p=68 Now appearing in Gloom Cupboard # 102:

PALM DUSK

Don’t be fooled by the thick humidity. The day grows darker than you imagine in a twilight vaguely illuminated by the burning tops of the palm trees; forty-four fronds blazing away, swaying in the gentle East Bay winds.

All beneath the particulate marine layer with an eye for a local mortgage; weather drawn by the density of bodies. Elements are as the blank slate of wills of you and I with our pretensions to an immortal phantasmagoria.

For a time there had been a growing sun, as if Orion had thrown out his arms to embrace the Earth as his lover.

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