#990139 added August 8, 2020 at 1:22am Restrictions: None
Summer's storm [177]
Summer's storm
Summer stands there frozen against the scudding clouds
the storm crashing through her as tall waves pound the shore
she resists temptation to go inside and thaw
this her power—to withstand it all—a beacon
of hope to the stranded weary of winter's pall;
she stands fast before the fury like a lighthouse
dug down to life's bedrock, sand sifting over toes,
a lone seagull circles her thoughts swirling to gusts.
There's nowhere like Gitchigami: spring, summer, winter, fall.
Note: Gitchigami "great sea" is the Ojibwe name for the lake the French called le lac supérieur known in English as Lake Superior. "Superior" would work instead of Gitchigami but I'm torn as to which to use.
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