Colorado ties with Texas for 6th sunniest
state in the USA. Who cares? The sun’s
not racing against itself, why should it?
I will not be buried in Elizabethport nor
one of the Oranges like the rest of my clan.
My body will not be flown home in a crate
to be clucked over by who knows which
Irish relatives. The way the sun rises here,
clanging its huge cowbell, easing the East
right out of you, you’d think everybody’d
be tinted silt and rouge and worshipping
The Bright Solar Prince of the Solar Palace.
(Who?) I’m but one who recently drifted
from old New Jersey, the 27th sunniest state
where the sun shines 56% of the time. Don’t
underestimate the operatic trill and maw
of this western sun as it blazes over you
and laughs behind the Rockies. It will draw
you to it and sear you like a steak, Jersey
girl, Golden Guernsey, little pail of milk