Photo by Marcy Shortuse
Contrasts
Long-sleeved sunlight
casts its shadows
down the shoreline ...
this day between fall’s last breath
and winter’s promised claim ...
their contrasts rivaling
the best Georgia O’Keefe could paint.
Why am I uplifted
by such lightness of creation
but never by its darkness?
- Lyman Randall
“Island Dreams: The Live Poet’s
Society of Boca Grande”