April 22 NaPoMo 2021

[dukealien]

Strange Latitudes


Is it strange times or places
when mere location shifts all things?

Surfing at Christmas
buying Fall clothes for Easter
what difference does it make?

Those things not so much…

but rise-time and decline
climb and fall as evolved over Cancer
ill-assort themselves under Capricorn:

Christmas timed not so as to celebrate life kindling
but at the start of all things’ death;
Easter and its droll preceding Carnival
presaging not rebirth and resurrection
but hectic dark-fated exuberance
not tilling and the planting but
harvest and gathering into barns
chaff on wind.