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SOUTHERN CROSS
by Jeanne Shannon
 

The Age of Aquarius is dawning,
and the world as we have known it
is coming to an end.

1.

the night skies over Tennessee
a thicket of briary stars

my lovers have all gone south
lost on the freeways of Alabama
or gathering dewberries in Georgia


rain last night
in Macon and Savannah

off Bimini
the sound of Atlantis
slowly rising

2.

through dusk luminous as marmalade
Venus is coming in from the west

in El Paso
air traffic control
thinks she's the evening flight
from Phoenix

radios her
clearance to land

her approach will be
from the south

3.

in North Carolina
the flame azaleas are in bloom
though the end of the world is coming

fat buds of roses crowd the trellis
nuzzle each other when night stirs

under the porch swing
a cricket threeps to the wind


in the Great Smokies
the flame azaleas are in bloom

and the viper's bugloss

though the end of the world
is soon
 

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