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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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