June Gloom

 

By Majid Naficy

June is the cloudiest month:
At midnight, in Santa Monica,
It puts a velvet blanket over the city
And at dawn
It hangs a curtain of fog
In front of the sunshine.
I like June’s sorrow
And prefer the ambiguity of clouds
To the directness of the sun.

Let a hand
Silence alarm clocks
So that workaholics
Can stay in bed a moment longer.
But poets and the homeless
Emerge from their hideouts
Under the overcast sky
And walk the coastal path
In two opposite directions:
One toward the sea
To find new poems
And the other toward town
To find their breakfast.

        June 13, 2014

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