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The weather gods
intently pummeling the city
With their stinging shots of hail and snow
Deserve a gift-bag calendar.
Ringing mountains painted in acrylic (super white)
Now beckon skiers
While the locals, dressed for springtime,
Shiver more from cold
Than any ecstasy unleashed
By views of blanched-out cactus
Or of pinion trees that droop with sudden icicles.
Two days
pass and bring reprieves with sunscreen warmth,
But much too late to turn about
Departing tourists suff’ring through Security already,
Tightly clutching boarding passes homeward-bound.
---New Mexico
©2010 by Paul Hertelendy. This column was first posted May 17, 2010.
Paul Hertelendy is critic
and webmaster for the arts-review web site www.artssf.com, and
is also the Piedmont (CA) Centennial poet laureate. To visit his
website, click here: PAUL
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