Early Harvest, Gusto Press

Herewith, the latest selection from dusted-off published poetry and short fiction, circa 1970s vintage and beyond....

Pastorale

The setting sun
like an Amondisc
Throwing waning light
in searching fingers
on oblique mountains
fencing the lake
where purple martens
swoop lazily
and robins
offer a paeon
to another day.

The honeyed air
casts an amber glow
over your flesh
mystically
as of some ancient rite
etching the features
of your face
defining the
slow undulations
of your body.

I cup this image
in memory
now and then peruse it
turn it like a
fabled treasure
to catch the light
of another day.

c. 1980 Rita Rosenfeld