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Maureen Seaton: West Ho

October 25, 2016 by PBQ

 
                        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

Filed Under: Contributors 94, Issue 94, Poetry, Poetry 94 Tagged With: Contributors 94, Maureen Seaton, Poetry, Poetry 94

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