Issue Sixteen - April 2010

Whistle for the Sun Dogs

By Lewis Spaulding

those dogs come
at 22 degrees 
falling off
ice crystals
Bernoulli says… for effect
hexagonal ice crystals
with flat planes parallel 
to the ground
with blue tails leading outside
then green then red
don’t those dogs
just love that sun though
and don’t you just want to
stir up that diamond dust
and watch those
rainbow dogs run

Copyright Lewis Spaulding

Lewis Spaulding found himself writing many poems thirty years ago while in college and was fortunate to enjoy publication of some of them. Now he finds himself waking the poetry path again, with new discoveries around each bend. He lives on San Juan Island.

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