For the 1999 Spring Ast103 Class
I am right red or unbearable gold,
to my straight gaze, eyes flinch and fold,
east bows at my paraded lev\'e,
I define---am---the essence of day,
at noon, Inuit north and far Bedouin,
but mutually me---I blister skin,
shadows fear me---stay out of my path,
and in the desert, all stands in my wrath.
But---to the lazy rhythm of 3 pm time---
I Earthward glide the ecliptic line,
dying decently west, a ghost of late might,
then before I'm quite gone---I cast my twilight.
---John Jeffery
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, Nevada
1999 March 7
Maintained (if that is the word) by David J. Jeffery, Tel: 615-898-5946, Email: jeffery@physics.unlv.edu
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