One Birthday, Remembering Another

 “I just can’t comprehend

Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world,

Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.” — Anna Akhamatova

Evening comes to Luna Lodge, near
Parque Nacional Corcovado, Oso Peninsula, Costa Rica
(photo: Terry Schulz, 2/2/12)

    Sun Setting

     Go now. The day’s done. Let me

     open my body and see what flows out.

     Remember the ocean’s edge at Corcovado,

     where rainforest collapsed to beach and sea?

     Each time the tide pulled away

     hundreds of tiny fish silvered the sand,

     gasping, flailing, the shimmering Pacific slivered,

     such beautiful desperation.