Boxing Day

Wyuna Bay, Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand
December 26, 2010

From the unpublished collection: New (Zealand) Enthusiasms

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Sitting in a hammock at 
Wyuna Bay.  
Peaceful.
Harmonious. 
Beautiful.

So many blues and greens
it could make anyone a 
poet.

Wyuna Bay
So many 
blues
and 
greens
I become a poet,
again.

The gentle splashing sounds
of waves and 
waves and 
waves of insects rhythmically chanting and the 
gentle hammock rocking,
hammocking.

Warm air
cool breeze.
The mad sun, everywhere

– interacting –

creating chemical reactions
with green and blue
and flesh
waves rippling progressively
moving, 
going nowhere.

The insects repeating the 
Same old stuttering buzz
buzz
buzzing
I keep looking at the 
blues and greens
and the feelings this 
whole tableau 
evokes – in me.

Little white splashes
cool breeze through my toes
a new insect starts 
clicking
the sun pushes 
through the leaves
the feeling is something
like
a clenched and knotted 
soul
slowly 
starting 
to relax.