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Open Poetry #29

The Edge Of Winter

Jaime Fradera
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since 2000-11-25

Posts 843
Where no tyranny is tolerable

0 posted 2003-10-31 08:22 AM

The Edge Of Winter
by Jaime Fradera

It is evening.
The sun is setting
In an empty winter sky.
And it is very quiet.
I sit
On A high, precarious exposure,
drinking in the cool night air.
It tastes and smells frosty and sweet,
I can almost eat it.
The air is bracing and Bone-dry
It is tinged
With the bitter paralyzing cold of elevation.
And it tells me of boundless windy heights,
Where people have to wear protective suits
And carry their own oxygen to breathe.
And there seems to be absolutely nothing
Between me and interplanetary space.
And it feels good.

Jaime

LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19

Posts 13296