"Beach Sunset" in Boston
 

The sun hangs alone
in a white-blue sky,
coral copper luminous
as if it will sink into waves;

not behind buildings,
squatting heaps of city life, city death.

This sun belongs to kite winds,
lonely shores for runaways.
Colors do not roar tonight.

I stare it in the eye.
The sun sprouts ink-blue shadows;
maybe it will blind me
but I can't turn away.

I see another place;
now and there are one.
What more to wish
than that same face
to follow gliding down where it is home?  


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