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Sonnet for a Basement Room
This basement room of windy, gusty blusters
Seen through the sill is pulsing; through the pines.
Here Noon the Great who studied weather musters
The sea and sun in breath through twining vines.
Straight through the blue above, the loony moon
A flaming lunatic in daylight's blazes,
Pale on her perch, peers and intently gazes
Back through this sill across her silly noon.
Yet in this ecquinoctial hocus-pocus
When all's awake and nature's out to play,
Rays through the window put it all in focus...
You're still asleep! Bright midnight was our day-
Now's gloomy noon. We'll sleep then, dream delight:
Twin owls who soared the glory of the night.
Seen through the sill is pulsing; through the pines.
Here Noon the Great who studied weather musters
The sea and sun in breath through twining vines.
Straight through the blue above, the loony moon
A flaming lunatic in daylight's blazes,
Pale on her perch, peers and intently gazes
Back through this sill across her silly noon.
Yet in this ecquinoctial hocus-pocus
When all's awake and nature's out to play,
Rays through the window put it all in focus...
You're still asleep! Bright midnight was our day-
Now's gloomy noon. We'll sleep then, dream delight:
Twin owls who soared the glory of the night.
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Sonnet for a Basement Room
Sonnet for a Basement Room
